Andrea Rusnock
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 207190 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrea Rusnock |
| NOMBRES | Andrea |
| APELLIDO | Rusnock |
| FIRMA | RUSNOCK A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Rhode Island |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Battling Smallpox Before Vaccination
The Contagion of Liberty
Humanitarian Goals, Financial Constraints, and Residual Questions of America’s First Vaccine Institute
The article discusses challenges to physician James Smith regarding the safety and promotion of the first vaccinations in the U.S. Topics include the financial aspects or producing, preserving and shipping vaccinations, Smith's humanitarian goal of extirpating smallpox by relying on lay vaccination, and the government's decision not to finance vaccine production
The Uses of Humans in Experiment
Reviewed by: The Uses of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century ed. by Erika Dyck and Larry Stewart Andrea A. Rusnock Erika Dyck and Larry Stewart, eds. The Uses of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century. Clio Medica: Perspectives in Medical Humanities 95. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2016. xii + 297 pp. Ill. $149.00 (978-90-04-28670-2). Scholarly discussion of human experimentation has focused…
The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age
The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age: The Collection of Pyotr Semenov and the Art-Market in St. Petersburg, 1860–1910. I. A. Sokolova. Oud Holland Book Series 1. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxiii + 446 pp. €145. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Catching Cowpox
The introduction of smallpox vaccination after the publication of Edward Jenner's An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae depended on the spread of cowpox, a relatively rare disease. How Europeans and their colonial allies transported and maintained cowpox in new environments is a social and technological story involving a broad range of individuals from physicians and surgeons to philanthropists, ministers, and colonial admin…
Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660-1820
Journal Article Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660–1820 Get access David E. Shuttleton. Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660–1820. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 265 pp. illus. Andrea Rusnock, Ph.D. Andrea Rusnock, Ph.D. Department of History, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RhodeIsland02881. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine a…
Vital Accounts
Why did Europeans begin to count births and deaths? How did they collect the numbers and what did they do with them? Through a compelling comparative analysis, Vital Accounts charts the work of the physicians, clergymen and government officials who crafted the sciences of political and medical arithmetic in England and France during the long eighteenth-century, before the emergence of statistics and regular government censuses. Andrea A. Rusnock …
Statistics on the table
Correspondence networks and the Royal Society, 1700–1750
The Royal Society in the eighteenth century cuts a poor figure in comparison with its robust parent of the seventeenth century. Contemporary satirists and modern historians alike have found little to recommend the weak and well-padded institution. After Newton's death in 1727, it was no longer the centre for natural philosophy, and even during his tenure as President the Society did not escape censure. Fascination with monstrous curiosities and a…
The Secret Malady
Reviewed by: The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France Andrea Rusnock Linda E. Merians, ed. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. viii + 269 pp. Ill. $39.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paperbound). This volume includes fifteen essays on syphilis and gonorrhea in the eighteenth century; the first eight are historical, the remaining seven …
Quantification and the quest for medical certainty
Interactions
The Values of Precision
Essay Review
Samuel Johnson in the Medical World
Correspondence networks and the Royal Society, 1700–1750
The Royal Society in the eighteenth century cuts a poor figure in comparison with its robust parent of the seventeenth century. Contemporary satirists and modern historians alike have found little to recommend the weak and well-padded institution. After Newton's death in 1727, it was no longer the centre for natural philosophy, and even during his tenure as President the Society did not escape censure. Fascination with monstrous curiosities and a…
Samuel Johnson in the Medical World
Essay Review
The Values of Precision
Interactions
The Secret Malady
Reviewed by: The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France Andrea Rusnock Linda E. Merians, ed. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. viii + 269 pp. Ill. $39.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paperbound). This volume includes fifteen essays on syphilis and gonorrhea in the eighteenth century; the first eight are historical, the remaining seven …
Quantification and the quest for medical certainty
Correspondence networks and the Royal Society, 1700–1750
The Royal Society in the eighteenth century cuts a poor figure in comparison with its robust parent of the seventeenth century. Contemporary satirists and modern historians alike have found little to recommend the weak and well-padded institution. After Newton's death in 1727, it was no longer the centre for natural philosophy, and even during his tenure as President the Society did not escape censure. Fascination with monstrous curiosities and a…
Vital Accounts
Why did Europeans begin to count births and deaths? How did they collect the numbers and what did they do with them? Through a compelling comparative analysis, Vital Accounts charts the work of the physicians, clergymen and government officials who crafted the sciences of political and medical arithmetic in England and France during the long eighteenth-century, before the emergence of statistics and regular government censuses. Andrea A. Rusnock …
Statistics on the table
Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660-1820
Journal Article Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660–1820 Get access David E. Shuttleton. Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660–1820. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 265 pp. illus. Andrea Rusnock, Ph.D. Andrea Rusnock, Ph.D. Department of History, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RhodeIsland02881. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine a…
Catching Cowpox
The introduction of smallpox vaccination after the publication of Edward Jenner's An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae depended on the spread of cowpox, a relatively rare disease. How Europeans and their colonial allies transported and maintained cowpox in new environments is a social and technological story involving a broad range of individuals from physicians and surgeons to philanthropists, ministers, and colonial admin…
The Uses of Humans in Experiment
Reviewed by: The Uses of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century ed. by Erika Dyck and Larry Stewart Andrea A. Rusnock Erika Dyck and Larry Stewart, eds. The Uses of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century. Clio Medica: Perspectives in Medical Humanities 95. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2016. xii + 297 pp. Ill. $149.00 (978-90-04-28670-2). Scholarly discussion of human experimentation has focused…
The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age
The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age: The Collection of Pyotr Semenov and the Art-Market in St. Petersburg, 1860–1910. I. A. Sokolova. Oud Holland Book Series 1. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xxiii + 446 pp. €145. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Humanitarian Goals, Financial Constraints, and Residual Questions of America’s First Vaccine Institute
The article discusses challenges to physician James Smith regarding the safety and promotion of the first vaccinations in the U.S. Topics include the financial aspects or producing, preserving and shipping vaccinations, Smith's humanitarian goal of extirpating smallpox by relying on lay vaccination, and the government's decision not to finance vaccine production
The Contagion of Liberty
Battling Smallpox Before Vaccination
History (8 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · History of Science and Medicine (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Smallpox (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Vaccination (5 obras) · Art history (4 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)