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Author Walloch, Karen L., author.
Title The antivaccine heresy : Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the troubled history of compulsory vaccination in the United States / Karen L. Walloch.
Publisher Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015.
Copyright date ©2015



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Contents 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.
ISBN 9781782046851 (electronic bk.)
1782046852 (electronic bk.)
9781782048787 (electronic bk.)
1782048782 (electronic bk.)
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Author Walloch, Karen L., author.
Series Rochester studies in medical history
Rochester studies in medical history.
Subject Vaccination -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Immunization of children -- United States.
Vaccination of children -- Complications.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 339 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Contents 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.
ISBN 9781782046851 (electronic bk.)
1782046852 (electronic bk.)
9781782048787 (electronic bk.)
1782048782 (electronic bk.)
Author Walloch, Karen L., author.
Series Rochester studies in medical history
Rochester studies in medical history.
Subject Vaccination -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Immunization of children -- United States.
Vaccination of children -- Complications.

Subject Vaccination -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Immunization of children -- United States.
Vaccination of children -- Complications.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 339 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Contents 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.
ISBN 9781782046851 (electronic bk.)
1782046852 (electronic bk.)
9781782048787 (electronic bk.)
1782048782 (electronic bk.)

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