Michael J Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | BENNETT M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2930-4900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Barad’s Diffractive Methodology and the History of Philosophy
The phenomenon of diffraction is a key methodological notion for Karen Barad. This article elaborates on Barad’s comments about diffractive methodology and argues that the approach can be fruitfully applied to the history of philosophy. It deals with potential objections to this application, such as Barad’s rejection of “analogical reasoning” and the possibility that the history of philosophy does not represent a properly interdisciplinary contex…
Habermas’s Interpretation of Arendt in The Future of Human Nature: Communicative Reason, Power, and Natality
This article responds to several liberal bioethicists’ criticisms of Jürgen Habermas’s The Future of Human Nature by placing it in the context of his intellectual influences and career-spanning theorization of communicative rationality. In particular, I argue that Habermas’s critics have not grasped his interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality. Far from merely ventriloquizing his friend and teacher, Habermas distinguishes his constru…
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination
Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human st…
Historians on John Gower
Hometown Religion. Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia
The Longer History of Human Rights: Refuge in Early Modern Europe
According to Samuel Moyn, rather than seeking ‘to monumentalise human rights by rooting them in the deep past, it is much better to acknowledge how recent and contingent they really are’. This paper eschews a narrow and teleological history but nonetheless argues the importance of a deeper and broader perspective on the human rights. It discusses the relevance of the distinctive states-system of early modern Europe to ideas and practice in relati…
With Knives and Words: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England. The History of Medicine in Context
Note‐Taking and Data‐Sharing: Edward Jenner and the Global Vaccination Network
The massive expansion of information from the seventeenth century placed considerable demands on mental capacity, and individual scholars responded with strategies of memory training and note‐taking that prompted, relieved or replaced memory. It has been acknowledged how cowpox inoculation (vaccination) and smallpox inoculation (variolation) stimulated new forms of record keeping and the standardization and tabulation of medical data for scientif…
Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World – By Stephanie J. Snow
Smallpox and Cowpox under the Southern Cross: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1789 and the Advent of Vaccination in Colonial Australia
In histories of smallpox and vaccination, little attention has been paid to their progress in the southern latitudes. In this paper, I focus on the appearance of smallpox around Sydney Cove in 1789 and the introduction of cowpox (vaccine) to New South Wales in 1804. I demonstrate the connections, historical and virological, between the two events and examine the role of variolation in the spread of smallpox and in anticipating vaccination. I argu…
Jenner's Ladies: Women and Vaccination against Smallpox in Early Nineteenth‐Century Britain
In 1798 Edward Jenner published his theory that cowpox inoculation (vaccination) provided immunity to smallpox, the greatest scourge of his age. In the following decade the practice spread remarkably rapidly, partly as a substitute for the older and more dangerous practice of smallpox inoculation (variolation) and partly through the creation of a larger constituency for immunization. While there is some awareness that Jenner was able to cultivate…
Passage through India: Global Vaccination and British India, 1800–05
Between 1798 and 1805 the novel practice of vaccination spread rapidly around the globe, and its first introduction into India needs to be seen as the initiative of Edward Jenner and his followers rather than imperial policy. Against a background of military and imperial expansion, however, the British in India and Ceylon supported vaccination with resources and energy lacking at home. This paper examines the technical problems associated with th…
Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War
Henry VII and the Northern Rising of 1489
Henry VII and the Northern Rising of 1489 Get access MICHAEL J. BENNETT MICHAEL J. BENNETT University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXIV, January 1990, Pages 34–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXIV.34 Published: 01 January 1990
The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: The Fourteenth-Century Political Community
Urban Neighborhoods, Networks, and Families: New Forms for Old Values . Peggy Wireman
Provincial Gentlefolk and Legal Education in the Reign of Edward II
Provincial Gentlefolk and Legal Education in the Reign of Edward II Get access Michael J. Bennett Michael J. Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 57, Issue 136, November 1984, Pages 203–208, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1984.tb02244.x Published: 12 October 2007
Sir Gawain and the green knight and the literary achievement of the north-west Midlands: The historical background
The author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the other verse in BLMS. Cotton Nero A x ranks with his contemporaries, Chaucer and Langland, as one of the three great Middle English poets. Whilst this anonymous master and associated writers have been confidently ascribed to the north-west Midlands in the reign of Richard II, the social context of this literary achievement is still inadequately understood. Drawing on wider research on the socia…
Jenner's Ladies: Women and Vaccination against Smallpox in Early Nineteenth‐Century Britain
In 1798 Edward Jenner published his theory that cowpox inoculation (vaccination) provided immunity to smallpox, the greatest scourge of his age. In the following decade the practice spread remarkably rapidly, partly as a substitute for the older and more dangerous practice of smallpox inoculation (variolation) and partly through the creation of a larger constituency for immunization. While there is some awareness that Jenner was able to cultivate…
Henry VII and the Northern Rising of 1489
Henry VII and the Northern Rising of 1489 Get access MICHAEL J. BENNETT MICHAEL J. BENNETT University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXIV, January 1990, Pages 34–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXIV.34 Published: 01 January 1990
Passage through India: Global Vaccination and British India, 1800–05
Between 1798 and 1805 the novel practice of vaccination spread rapidly around the globe, and its first introduction into India needs to be seen as the initiative of Edward Jenner and his followers rather than imperial policy. Against a background of military and imperial expansion, however, the British in India and Ceylon supported vaccination with resources and energy lacking at home. This paper examines the technical problems associated with th…
Provincial Gentlefolk and Legal Education in the Reign of Edward II
Provincial Gentlefolk and Legal Education in the Reign of Edward II Get access Michael J. Bennett Michael J. Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 57, Issue 136, November 1984, Pages 203–208, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1984.tb02244.x Published: 12 October 2007
Sir Gawain and the green knight and the literary achievement of the north-west Midlands: The historical background
The author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the other verse in BLMS. Cotton Nero A x ranks with his contemporaries, Chaucer and Langland, as one of the three great Middle English poets. Whilst this anonymous master and associated writers have been confidently ascribed to the north-west Midlands in the reign of Richard II, the social context of this literary achievement is still inadequately understood. Drawing on wider research on the socia…
Provincial Gentlefolk and Legal Education in the Reign of Edward II
Provincial Gentlefolk and Legal Education in the Reign of Edward II Get access Michael J. Bennett Michael J. Bennett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 57, Issue 136, November 1984, Pages 203–208, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1984.tb02244.x Published: 12 October 2007
Urban Neighborhoods, Networks, and Families: New Forms for Old Values . Peggy Wireman
The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: The Fourteenth-Century Political Community
Henry VII and the Northern Rising of 1489
Henry VII and the Northern Rising of 1489 Get access MICHAEL J. BENNETT MICHAEL J. BENNETT University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXIV, January 1990, Pages 34–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXIV.34 Published: 01 January 1990
Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War
Passage through India: Global Vaccination and British India, 1800–05
Between 1798 and 1805 the novel practice of vaccination spread rapidly around the globe, and its first introduction into India needs to be seen as the initiative of Edward Jenner and his followers rather than imperial policy. Against a background of military and imperial expansion, however, the British in India and Ceylon supported vaccination with resources and energy lacking at home. This paper examines the technical problems associated with th…
Jenner's Ladies: Women and Vaccination against Smallpox in Early Nineteenth‐Century Britain
In 1798 Edward Jenner published his theory that cowpox inoculation (vaccination) provided immunity to smallpox, the greatest scourge of his age. In the following decade the practice spread remarkably rapidly, partly as a substitute for the older and more dangerous practice of smallpox inoculation (variolation) and partly through the creation of a larger constituency for immunization. While there is some awareness that Jenner was able to cultivate…
Smallpox and Cowpox under the Southern Cross: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1789 and the Advent of Vaccination in Colonial Australia
In histories of smallpox and vaccination, little attention has been paid to their progress in the southern latitudes. In this paper, I focus on the appearance of smallpox around Sydney Cove in 1789 and the introduction of cowpox (vaccine) to New South Wales in 1804. I demonstrate the connections, historical and virological, between the two events and examine the role of variolation in the spread of smallpox and in anticipating vaccination. I argu…
With Knives and Words: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England. The History of Medicine in Context
Note‐Taking and Data‐Sharing: Edward Jenner and the Global Vaccination Network
The massive expansion of information from the seventeenth century placed considerable demands on mental capacity, and individual scholars responded with strategies of memory training and note‐taking that prompted, relieved or replaced memory. It has been acknowledged how cowpox inoculation (vaccination) and smallpox inoculation (variolation) stimulated new forms of record keeping and the standardization and tabulation of medical data for scientif…
Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World – By Stephanie J. Snow
The Longer History of Human Rights: Refuge in Early Modern Europe
According to Samuel Moyn, rather than seeking ‘to monumentalise human rights by rooting them in the deep past, it is much better to acknowledge how recent and contingent they really are’. This paper eschews a narrow and teleological history but nonetheless argues the importance of a deeper and broader perspective on the human rights. It discusses the relevance of the distinctive states-system of early modern Europe to ideas and practice in relati…
Hometown Religion. Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia
Historians on John Gower
War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination
Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human st…
Habermas’s Interpretation of Arendt in The Future of Human Nature: Communicative Reason, Power, and Natality
This article responds to several liberal bioethicists’ criticisms of Jürgen Habermas’s The Future of Human Nature by placing it in the context of his intellectual influences and career-spanning theorization of communicative rationality. In particular, I argue that Habermas’s critics have not grasped his interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality. Far from merely ventriloquizing his friend and teacher, Habermas distinguishes his constru…
Barad’s Diffractive Methodology and the History of Philosophy
The phenomenon of diffraction is a key methodological notion for Karen Barad. This article elaborates on Barad’s comments about diffractive methodology and argues that the approach can be fruitfully applied to the history of philosophy. It deals with potential objections to this application, such as Barad’s rejection of “analogical reasoning” and the possibility that the history of philosophy does not represent a properly interdisciplinary contex…
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