From Inoculation to Vaccination Mini-Series

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From Inoculation to Vaccination Mini-Series

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  • John Duffy, Epidemics in Colonial America (1953)
  • Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (2001)
  • Ian and Jenifer Glynn, The Life and Death of Smallpox (2004)
  • Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2017)
  • Genevieve Miller, The Adoption of Inoculation for Smallpox in England and France (1957)
  • Ben Mutschler, The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England (2020)
  • Mark Peterson, The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 (2020)
  • John Rhodes, How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for Covid-19 and Beyond (2021)
  • Suman Seth, Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (2020)
  • Cristobal Silva, Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative (2011)
  • Andrew Wehrman, Contagion of Liberty (Forthcoming)
  • Arthur Boylston, “The Origins of Inoculation”, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 105, No 7 (July 2012): 309-313
  • Claire Gherini, “Rationalizing Disease: James Kilpatrick’s Atlantic Struggles with Smallpox Inoculation,” Atlantic Studies, 4, no. 7 (2010): 421-446
  • Sara Stidstone Gronim, “Imagining Inoculation:Smallpox, the Body, and Social Relations of Healing in the Eighteenth Century” Bulletin of the History of Medicine Vol. 80, No. 2 (Summer 2006): 247-268
  • Margot Minardi, “Boston Inoculation Controversy of 1721-22: An Incident in the History of Race,” William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Jan., 2004): 47-76
  • Kathryn Olivarius, “Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans” The American Historical Review, Volume 124, Issue 2, (April 2019): 425–455
  • L. Stewart, “The Edge of Utility: Slaves and Smallpox in the Early Eighteenth Century” Medical History Vol. 29, No. 1 (Jan 1985): 54–70
  • Andrew Wehrman, “The Siege of ‘Castle Pox’: A Medical Revolution in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1764–1777” The New England Quarterly Vol. 82, No. 3 (September 2009): 385-429

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