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Author Durbach, Nadja, 1971- author.

Title Bodily matters : the anti-vaccination movement in England, 1853-1907 / Nadja Durbach
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations
Series Radical perspectives
Radical perspectives.
Contents The parliamentary lancet -- Fighting the "babies battle" -- Populism, citizenship, and the politics of Victorian liberalism -- The body politics of class formation -- Vampires, vivisectors, and the Victorian body -- Germs, dirt, and the constitution -- Class, gender, and the conscientious objector
Summary 'Bodily Matters' examines the anti-vaccination movement in Victorian Britain, locating it at the centre of public debate about medical developments, the politics of class, the extent of government intervention in the lives of its citizens & the values ofa liberal society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Smallpox -- Vaccination -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Patient refusal of treatment.
Smallpox -- prevention & control
Vaccination -- history
Health Policy -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Mandatory Programs -- history
Mass Vaccination -- history
Socioeconomic Factors
Treatment Refusal
Vaccination -- legislation & jurisprudence
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- History.
Patient refusal of treatment
Smallpox -- Vaccination
Pockenimpfung
Vaccinatie.
Pokken.
Tegenstanders.
Variole -- Vaccination -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle.
44.75 infectious diseases, parasitic diseases.
SUBJECT England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004013140
ISBN 9780822386506
082238650X
1283024047
9781283024044
9786613024046
661302404X