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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Routledge Advances in American History Ser |
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Routledge Advances in American History Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The First Academicus Dialogue: An Attack on Wm. Douglass and Mundungus -- Attacks on Mundungus's Education and Writing Style -- The Second ""Academicus Dialogue"": The Response from Rusticus -- Early Attempts at Re-Organizing a Political Anatomy -- Other Commentary on Education -- The Silence Dogood Letters -- Reflecting on the Power Relations Revealed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. The Discrediting of African, Levantine, and Women's Experience -- Introduction -- Onesimus's Testimonials -- Mather's Attitude toward Africans -- Smallpox in the Slave Trade and Other African Testimonials |
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Opposition to the Sources by Doctors and Other Bostonians -- Slavery in 1700s New England -- Other Disqualified Knowledge Fueled Resistance -- Truth Claims of ""Mohametans"" Challenged -- Women's Knowledge of Inoculation -- More Analysis of Boston -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Then and Now -- Early Beginnings of New Paradigms -- 1720s Debate: Religion, Legality, and the Firebombing -- Witches and Who Controls the Body? -- Disciplining Bodies and Spaces -- The Subjugated Body of the Other -- Last View of the 1720s -- Brief Analytical Summary |
| Summary |
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 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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The 2020s Resistance: Religion and Its Role in Vaccination Debates |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000842449 |
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1000842444 |
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