The Antivaccine Heresy (ePub)
Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States
(Sprache: Englisch)
Explores the history of vaccine development and the rise of antivaccination societies in late-nineteenth-century America.
Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in...
Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in...
Leider schon ausverkauft
eBook (ePub)
69.90 €
- Lastschrift, Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnung
- Kostenloser tolino webreader
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „The Antivaccine Heresy (ePub)“
Explores the history of vaccine development and the rise of antivaccination societies in late-nineteenth-century America.
Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. In response, antivaccination societies formed all over the United States, lobbying state legislatures and bringing lawsuits to abolish these laws. One such lawsuit ultimately arrived at the United States Supreme Court, which upheld the laws in a landmark decision, Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). In this study, Karen Walloch examines the history of vaccine development in the United States, the laws put in place enjoining the practice, and the popular reaction against them. Walloch finds that at theend of the nineteenth century Americans had good reason to fear vaccination. Vaccines simply did not live up to claims made for their safety and effectiveness. They induced pain, disability, and grim or even fatal infections. Inthis critical history of the antivaccine movement and of Jacobson v. Massachusetts in particular, Walloch locates the beginnings of a legacy of doubt about vaccination -- one that affected legislation in all fifty states and is still very much alive today.
Karen Walloch is a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. In response, antivaccination societies formed all over the United States, lobbying state legislatures and bringing lawsuits to abolish these laws. One such lawsuit ultimately arrived at the United States Supreme Court, which upheld the laws in a landmark decision, Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). In this study, Karen Walloch examines the history of vaccine development in the United States, the laws put in place enjoining the practice, and the popular reaction against them. Walloch finds that at theend of the nineteenth century Americans had good reason to fear vaccination. Vaccines simply did not live up to claims made for their safety and effectiveness. They induced pain, disability, and grim or even fatal infections. Inthis critical history of the antivaccine movement and of Jacobson v. Massachusetts in particular, Walloch locates the beginnings of a legacy of doubt about vaccination -- one that affected legislation in all fifty states and is still very much alive today.
Karen Walloch is a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Autoren-Porträt von Karen Karen Walloch
Karen L. Walloch
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Karen Karen Walloch
- 2015, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Wits University Press
- ISBN-10: 1782048782
- ISBN-13: 9781782048787
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2015
Abhängig von Bildschirmgröße und eingestellter Schriftgröße kann die Seitenzahl auf Ihrem Lesegerät variieren.
eBook Informationen
- Dateiformat: ePub
- Größe: 25 MB
- Mit Kopierschutz
Sprache:
Englisch
Kopierschutz
Dieses eBook können Sie uneingeschränkt auf allen Geräten der tolino Familie lesen. Zum Lesen auf sonstigen eReadern und am PC benötigen Sie eine Adobe ID.
Kommentar zu "The Antivaccine Heresy"
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "The Antivaccine Heresy".
Kommentar verfassen