Edward Jenner (pocket GIANTS)
the vaccination visionary
$19.90
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2015
Summary
Edward Jenner is a giant of modern medicine. Throughout history, smallpox had plagued humanity with disfigurement, blindness, and death. It was an incurable blight, the suffering of which Jenner helped bring to an end. Surmising from the immunity of milkmaids that cowpox might be some defence against the ravages of smallpox, in 1793 he took some of the matter from a human case of cowpox and inserted it into the arms of a young boy. To test this, the first human-to-human vaccination, he subs…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780750961080 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0750961082 |
| Author: | Rob Boddice |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The History Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Pocket GIANTS |
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About The Author
Rob Boddice
ROB BODDICE (PhD, FRHistS) is Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences. He is the author/editor of thirteen books, including ‘Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion and Experience’ (Polity Press, 2023), ‘Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914’ (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and ‘A History of Feelings’ (Reaktion, 2019).
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