Bazin, H.
San Diego : Academic Press, c2000.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-236) and index.
• Chronology: The life of Edward Jenner — 1. On the long struggle of man, before Jenner, to fight smallpox (1721-1798) — 2. The young Jenner (1749-1772) — 3. Jenner, naturalist and country surgeon (1772-1795) — 4. The myth becomes reality (1795-1798) — 5. Jenner’s hard-won victory in England, his own country (1798-1823) — 6. The particular case of Napoleonic France (1798-1815) — 7. Vaccination spreads across Europe and the United States and then throughout the rest of the world (1798-1810) — 8. Honours and resentment for Jenner (1801-1823) — 9. Post-jennerian vaccination (1823-1979) — 10. Smallpox vaccination: its value and its limitations (1798-1979) — 11. The anti-vaccination movements (1798-1979) — 12. The eradication of smallpox: Jenner’s posthumous triumph (1959-1979) — 13. Jenner, vaccination and ethics (1796 to the present day) — 14. What should be done about the smallpox virus? — Some comments on current immunity to smallpox.

Subjects:

• Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823.
• Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823.
• Physicians — England — Biography.
• Smallpox — history — England — Biography.
• Vaccination — history — England — Biography.
• Physicians — England — Biography.
• Smallpox — Vaccination — History — 19th century.

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