Catching Cowpox

The Early Spread of Smallpox Vaccination, 1798–1810

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15024314
AutoresAndrea Rusnock (University of Rhode Island, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen83
Número1
Páginas17-36
Fecha de publicación2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/bhm.0.0160
PMID19329840
OpenAlexW2075683196
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas11

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 administrators. Putting cowpox in new places also meant developing new techniques and organizations. This essay focuses on the actual practices of vaccination and their environmental contexts in order to illuminate the dynamic exchanges of materials, images, and ideas that made the spread of vaccination possible

Biology · Colonialism · Cowpox · Cowpox virus · Political science · Smallpox · Smallpox vaccination · Vaccination · Vaccinia · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Medicine · Poxvirus research and outbreaks · Virology