The eradication of smallpox : Edward Jenner and the first and only eradication of a human infectious disease / Hervʹe Bazin ; translated by Andrew and Glenise Morgan
- Bib ID:
- 317676
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- Bazin, H
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- San Diego, Calif. ; London : Academic, c2000
- xx, 246 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0120834758
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- Acknowledgements.
- Foreword.
- Chronology: The life of Edward Jenner
- Introduction.
- For those who have forgotten or never knew what smallpox was like:
- On the long struggle of man, before Jenner, to fight smallpox.
- The life and work of Jenner:
- The young Jenner (1749-1772).
- Jenner, naturalist and country surgeon.
- The myth becomes reality (1795-1798).
- Jenner's hard-won victory in England, his own country.
- The particular case of Napoleonic France.
- Vaccination spreads across Europe and the United States and then throughout the rest of the world.
- Honours and resentment for Jenner (1801-1823).
- The perfect ending to the story: the eradication of smallpox:
- Post-Jennerian vaccination (1823-1979).
- Smallpox vaccination: its value and its limitations.
- The anti-vaccination movements (1798-1979).
- The eradication of smallpox: Jenner's posthumous triumph.
- Jenner, vaccination and ethics (1796 to the present day).
- What should be done about the smallpox virus?
- Conclusion.
- Some comments on current immunity to smallpox.
- Glossary.
- References.
- Index.
- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823, Physicians England Biography, Smallpox vaccine History, Smallpox Prevention History.
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- Rev. and modified by the author and translated from French of: Ce bon Docteur Jenner.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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