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Author : Genevieve Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (127 download)
Download or read book The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France written by Genevieve Miller and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Genevieve Miller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France written by Genevieve Miller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection. This book was released on 1957 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century was the genesis of modern immunology. This new method of purposely contracting a disease in order to secure protection from it was an empirical folk practice from the New East that ran counter to traditional European habits of thought in both medicine and religion. Based on diligent research in all available sources, this detailed study brings into relief the significant factors that made smallpox inoculation acceptable to Western Europeans--namely, the increasing threat and fear of the disease, particularly among the upper classes; a strong program led by members of such respected scientific groups and the Royal Society in London and the Academic Royale des Sciences in Paris; the interest and participation of both the English and French royal families who furnished an example for their subjects to emulate. In presenting this account of an important development in medical history Genevieve Miller offers evidence to prove that, contrary to the usual view, most religious leaders were not opposed to the practice of inoculation and that a number of them were active proponents. She also points out how, in the sphere of medical thought, experience with inoculation clarified ides concerning the etiology of smallpox by supplying proof that it originated with a specific material substance introduced into the human body from without.
Author : Grant Alicia
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1786345862
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Globalisation Of Variolation: The Overlooked Origins Of Immunity For Smallpox In The 18th Century written by Grant Alicia and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devastating epidemics of untreatable smallpox caused not only deaths but dire disfigurements of face and body as well as one third of all blindness. In the 20th century mortality was estimated at 300 million up to 1978, the year it was proclaimed to be eradicated. Historically, the fact has been overlooked, often forgotten, that the preventative practice of variolation for smallpox was widely adopted internationally during the 18th century and was the precursor to refinement as cowpox vaccination. Never previously traced was the extensive global adoption of the technique or the impetus for this transmission and how, in these countries of its adoption, variolation was the prime mover for a national concept of public health with the establishment of free institutions. The global adoption of the first invasive medical prophylaxis for any disease, the origin of immunity, deserves its place in history.
Author : Gavin Weightman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300241445
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Great Inoculator written by Gavin Weightman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies. Young and old, poor and royalty were equally at risk – unless they had survived a previous attack. Daniel Sutton, a young surgeon from Suffolk, used this knowledge to pioneer a simple and effective inoculation method to counter the disease. His technique paved the way for Edward Jenner’s discovery of vaccination – but, while Jenner is revered, Sutton has been vilified for not widely revealing his methods until later in life. Gavin Weightman reclaims Sutton’s importance, showing how the clinician’s practical and observational discoveries advanced understanding of the nature of disease. Weightman explores Sutton’s personal and professional development, and the wider world of eighteenth-century health in which he practised inoculation. Sutton’s brilliant and exacting mind had a significant impact on medicine – the effects of which can still be seen today.
Author : Michael Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521765676
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The War Against Smallpox written by Michael Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.
Author : Jennifer D. Penschow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004465374
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Battling Smallpox Before Vaccination written by Jennifer D. Penschow and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When smallpox inoculation entered western medical practice in 1721 it aroused considerable controversy. A broad-based cohort of enlightened Germans such as publishers, poets, pastors and elite women attempted to dispel the doubts and encourage the innovative procedure. Yet many parents remained fearful, and the contagiousness of inoculation also necessitated a new approach. National pride in the past defeat of bubonic plague aroused optimism that smallpox could be banished using a similar strategy. The arrival in 1800 of Jenner's vaccine ended the debates by offering yet another promising new approach. Battling Smallpox before Vaccination explores the social and medical impacts of inoculation. It offers belated recognition for the valiant attempts of the many protagonists battling against the so-called 'murdering angel' before Edward Jenner's discovery of vaccination. It provides a comprehensive description and penetrating analysis of the understanding and perception of smallpox, the propagation of pro-inoculation information, varied reactions to inoculation, and debates over the idealistic goal of eradicating smallpox"--
Author : George Rosen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416018
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book A History of Public Health written by George Rosen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.
Author : J. N. Hays
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548179
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Burdens of Disease written by J. N. Hays and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the original edition of The Burdens of Disease that appeared in ISIS stated, "Hays has written a remarkable book. He too has a message: That epidemics are primarily dependent on poverty and that the West has consistently refused to accept this." This revised edition confirms the book's timely value and provides a sweeping approach to the history of disease. In this updated volume, with revisions and additions to the original content, including the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and expanded coverage of HIV/AIDS, along with recent data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics, J. N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history. Disease is framed as a multidimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture, and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social relations as much as in biological conditions of pathology. This revised edition of The Burdens of Disease also studies the victims of epidemics, paying close attention to the relationships among poverty, power, and disease.
Author : Andrew Cliff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191663352
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control written by Andrew Cliff and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control: A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global Eradication is a comprehensive analysis of spatial theory and the practical methods used to prevent the geographical spread of communicable diseases in humans. Drawing on current and historical examples spanning seven centuries from across the globe, this indispensable volume demonstrates how to mitigate the public health impact of infections in disease hotspots and prevent the propagation of infection from such hotspots into other geographical locations. Containing case studies of longstanding global killers such as influenza, measles and poliomyelitis, through to newly emerged diseases like SARS and highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans, this book integrates theory, data and spatial analysis and locates these quantitative analyses in the context of global demographic and health policy change. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 original maps and diagrams to aid understanding and assimilation, in six sections the authors examine surveillance, quarantine, vaccination, and forecasting for disease control. The discussion covers theoretical approaches, techniques and systems central to mitigating disease spread, and methods that deliver practical disease control. Essential information is also provided on the geographical eradication of diseases, including the design of early warning systems that detect the geographical spread of epidemics, enabling students and practitioners to design spatially-targeted control strategies. Despite the early hope of eradication of many communicable diseases after the global eradication of smallpox by 1979, the world is still working at the control and elimination of the spatial spread of newly-emerging and resurgent infectious diseases. Learning from past examples and incorporating modern surveillance and reporting techniques that are used to design value-for-money spatially-targeted interventions to protect public health, the Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control is an essential resource for all those working in, or studying ways to control the spread of communicable diseases between humans in a timely and cost-effective manner. It is ideal for specialists and students in infectious disease control as well as those in the medical sciences, epidemiology, demography, public health, geography, and medical history.
Author : Andrea A. Rusnock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521803748
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Vital Accounts written by Andrea A. Rusnock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rusnock shows how vital accounts became the measure of public health and welfare.
Author : Donald R. Hopkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618952X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Killer written by Donald R. Hopkins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once known as the "great fire" or "spotted death," smallpox has been rivaled only by plague as a source of supreme terror. Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, recent terrorist attacks in the United States have raised the possibility that someone might craft a deadly biological weapon from stocks of the virus that remain in known or perhaps unknown laboratories. In The Greatest Killer, Donald R. Hopkins provides a fascinating account of smallpox and its role in human history. Starting with its origins 10,000 years ago in Africa or Asia, Hopkins follows the disease through the ancient and modern worlds, showing how smallpox removed or temporarily incapacitated heads of state, halted or exacerbated wars, and devastated populations that had never been exposed to the disease. In Hopkins's history, smallpox was one of the most dangerous-and influential-factors that shaped the course of world events.
Author : Donald R. Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226351766
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Princes and Peasants written by Donald R. Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the disease of smallpox from its possible origins in prehistoric times to its eradication in 1977
Author : G. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230293190
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Angel of Death written by G. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully exterminated (30 years ago next year) by a public health campaign.
Author : David Hartley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Some Reasons why the Practice of Inoculation Ought to be Introduced Into the Town of Bury at Present written by David Hartley and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521864267
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medicine written by Roy Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.
Author : G. Rousseau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023052432X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History written by G. Rousseau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these meanings as doctors, yet it is only recently that literary traditions have been recognized as a rich archive for these interpretations. These essays focus on the methodological hurdles encountered in retrieving these interpretations, called 'framing' by the authors. Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History aims to explain what has been said about these interpretations and to compare their value.
Author : Frank Wells
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429533519
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Fraud and Misconduct in Biomedical Research, 4th edition written by Frank Wells and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fourth edition, Fraud and Misconduct in Biomedical Research boasts an impressive list of contributors from around the globe and introduces a new focus for the book, transforming it from a series of monographs into a publication that will quickly become an essential textbook on all areas of research fraud and misconduct.Key features inclu
