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Auteur(s) : Bennett, Michael J. (1949-....)
Titre(s) : War against smallpox [Texte imprimé] : Edward Jenner and the global spread of vaccination / Michael Bennett,...
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge university press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-424 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"This is the global history of early vaccination. In the late eighteenth century,
Jenner demonstrated that inoculating cowpox could be an effective and viable means
of preventing smallpox and, by using humanised cowpox (vaccine) drawn from children
subject to the procedure, hit on the means to make the disease sustainably and universally
available. The book provides the first comprehensive account of the spread of vaccination
through networks of global connection during the Napoleonic Wars. It is about the
parents who gave cowpox a chance, the medical networks that put several million children
around the world arm-to-arm, the successes and failures of early vaccination, and
the measures that made mass immunisation feasible. It is the history of a remarkable
mobilisation that transformed many lives, a revolution that was an emancipatory force,
even as it came to represent the pointy end of growing state power, and the foundation
of later advances in preventive medicine. By the coming of peace in 1815, the war
against smallpox had begun to bring smallpox's empire within bounds"
Sujet(s) : Jenner, Edward (1749-1823)
Vaccin antivariolique -- Histoire
Vaccine (maladie) -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
614.521 09 (23e éd.) = Variole et formes atténuées - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780521765671. - ISBN 0521765676 (rel.). - ISBN 9780521147880. - ISBN 0521147883
(br.). - ISBN 9781139019569 (eBook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46587664d
Notice n° :
FRBNF46587664
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