The Conquest of Smallpox
Author : P. E. Razzell
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 36,84 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
The War Against Smallpox
Author : Michael Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521765676
Book Description
A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.
Pox Americana
Author : Elizabeth A. Fenn
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2002-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809078219
Book Description
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet little is known about it. Fenn reveals how deeply "variola" affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America. Illustrations.
A Destroying Angel
Author : Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Book Description
It seems fitting in 1973, when the World Health Organization has announced that worldwide smallpox will be eradicated completely from the world before the year's end, to tell the story of the long struggle against this killer and defacer of man, of the devastating epidemics in early Boston, and the consequent discovery of inoculation. In eighteenth-century history inoculation for smallpox marked a new beginning. Science entered the picture, stimulating keener observation, a sharper respect for objective fact, and never-ending experimentation. It reshaped American culture from a new center, leading life and thought out in new directions. In our own deeply troubled, revolutionary, and almost incredibly hopeful twentieth century, this once familiar but now only dimly remembered story takes on a timeless relevance. - Foreword.
Born to Die
Author : Noble David Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 1998-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521627306
Book Description
The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave: smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases literally conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination. The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame of the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization.
The Vaccinators
Author : Ann Jannetta
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2007-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 080477949X
Book Description
In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century, smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated twenty percent of all children born—most of them before the age of five. When the apathetic Tokugawa shogunate failed to respond, Japanese physicians, learned in Western medicine and medical technology, became the primary disseminators of Jennerian vaccination—a new medical technology to prevent smallpox. Tracing its origins from rural England, Jannetta investigates the transmission of Jennerian vaccination to and throughout pre-Meiji Japan. Relying on Dutch, Japanese, Russian, and English sources, the book treats Japanese physicians as leading agents of social and institutional change, showing how they used traditional strategies involving scholarship, marriage, and adoption to forge new local, national, and international networks in the first half of the nineteenth century. The Vaccinators details the appalling cost of Japan's almost 300-year isolation and examines in depth a nation on the cusp of political and social upheaval.
Angel of Death
Author : G. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0230293190
Book Description
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.
Rotting Face
Author : R. G. Robertson
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0870044974
Book Description
The smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838 forever changed the tribes of the Northern Plains.a Before it ran out of human fuel, the disease claimed 20,000 souls.a R.G. Robertson tells the story of this deadly virus with modern implications. "
Scourge
Author : Jonathan B. Tucker
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802139399
Book Description
A history of one of the world's deadliest diseases traces the influence of the smallpox plague on the course of human civilization, describes Jenner's creation of a vaccine against it and the World Health Organization's global efforts to eradicate it, and examines the dangers it still poses today as
Animals and Medicine
Author : Jack Botting
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1783741171
Book Description
Animals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease offers a detailed, scholarly historical review of the critical role animal experiments have played in advancing medical knowledge. Laboratory animals have been essential to this progress, and the knowledge gained has saved countless lives—both human and animal. Unfortunately, those opposed to using animals in research have often employed doctored evidence to suggest that the practice has impeded medical progress. This volume presents the articles Jack Botting wrote for the Research Defence Society News from 1991 to 1996, papers which provided scientists with the information needed to rebut such claims. Collected, they can now reach a wider readership interested in understanding the part of animal experiments in the history of medicine—from the discovery of key vaccines to the advancement of research on a range of diseases, among them hypertension, kidney failure and cancer.This book is essential reading for anyone curious about the role of animal experimentation in the history of science from the nineteenth century to the present.
