Americas First Vaccination

This book explores the response to a new scientific advance in medicine three hundred years ago to understand how this discourse revealed religious, racial, anti-intellectual, and other ideologies the first time documented vaccinations were introduced in America.

Autorentext

Barbara Sherman Heifferon initiated a sub-field in the rhetoric of health of medicine (RHM) in the U.S. This is her sixth book. Her love of medicine began as a cardio-pulmonary technician and continued to a longer career in RHM, technical and scientific writing, pandemics, and writing studies.

Inhalt

1. Contextualizing the Smallpox Inoculation of 1721-1722 2. The Religious and Legal Frames of the Debate: Who Controls the Body? 3. Echoes of the Witchcraft Trials: The Power of the "Invisible" 4. Class and Education in the "Academicus Dialogues," Other Commentary, and Silence Dogood 5. The Discrediting of African, Levantine, and Women's Experience 6. Then and Now