Battling Smallpox before Vaccination: Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century Germany: 105 (Clio Medica, 105) - Hardcover

Jennifer D. Penschow

 
9789004465138: Battling Smallpox before Vaccination: Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century Germany: 105 (Clio Medica, 105)

Synopsis

This comprehensive description and penetrating analysis of the understanding and perception of smallpox, the encouragement of inoculation, and the varied responses highlights the broad cohort of enlightened Germans battling against smallpox before Edward Jenner’s discovery of vaccination.

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About the Author

Jennifer D. Penschow (PhD Med. 1994 Melbourne; PhD His. 2016 Tasmania) has one international patent and 39 peer-reviewed collaborative publications, including two articles in Nature, mainly with research teams at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, the Howard Florey Institute, Melbourne, and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Tasmania. At present she is an independent scholar.

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