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List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Vaccination in nineteenth-century America -- 2. Problems with vaccination in the nineteenth century -- 3. The 1901-2 smallpox epidemic in Boston and Cambridge -- 4. The hazards of vaccination in 1901-2 -- 5. Massachusetts antivaccinationists -- 6. Immanuel Pfeiffer versus the Boston Board of Health -- 7. The 1902 campaign to amend the compulsory vaccination laws -- 8. Criminal prosecution of the antivaccinationists -- 9. Jacobson v. Massuchusetts -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Boston Health Department vaccinations, 1872-1900 -- Appendix B: Voting records for Samuel Durgin's vaccination bill before the Massachusetts State Senate -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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9781782046851 (electronic bk.) |
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1782046852 (electronic bk.) |
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9781782048787 (electronic bk.) |
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1782048782 (electronic bk.) |
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