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America's First Vaccination: The Controversy Of 1721-22

Objektkategorie:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Heifferon, Barbara
Verlag:
Taylor & Francis Group
Veröffentlichungsort:
Milton
Entstehungszeit:
2023
Umfang, Illustration, Format:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Sprache:
Englisch
Bereitstellende Institution:
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
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Abstract:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Overview of the Chapters -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Then and Now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1. Contextualizing the Smallpox Inoculation of 1721-1722 -- Foucault's "Apparatus" as Lens -- Foucault's Genealogical Lens -- Brief History of Smallpox -- Quarantines in Boston and Earlier -- Puritan Interest in Science or "Natural Philosophy -- The Reigning Medical Paradigm -- The Method of Inoculation -- Mather's Sources and Possible Purposes -- The Main Antagonists: Mather (the Minister), Boylston (the Surgeon) vs. Douglass (the Doctor) and the Franklins -- The Common Sense Trope -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. The Religious and Legal Frames of the Debate: Who Controls the Body? -- Infectious Testimonials -- The Religious Controversy over Inoculation -- Charges of "Illegality" and the Laws of Physick -- Religious Arguments against Inoculation: More Williams's, Grainger's, and Douglass's Tracts -- An Inoculator's Refutations: William Cooper's Tracts -- Charges of "Illegality" against the Crown -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Echoes of the Witchcraft Trials: The Power of the "Invisible -- Witchcraft Trials and the Microscope -- The Scene of the Earlier Witchcraft Debacle -- Memorable Providences and Wonders of the Invisible World -- Mather's "Curiosities -- The Trope of Invisibility and the Inoculation Project -- The Role of the Microscope and Early Germ Theory -- New Places to Look and New Ways to Observe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Class and Education in The "Academicus Dialogues," other Commentary, and Silence Dogood -- Introduction -- The First Academicus Dialogue: An Attack on Wm. Douglass and Mundungus.
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Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Datensatz angelegt am:
2023-04-12
Zuletzt geändert am:
2023-01-19
In Portal übernommen am:
2023-04-12