Edward Jenner
The Vaccination Visionary
$30.52
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2023
Summary
A concise history of one of the most important figures in history: the father of modern medicine and inventor of vaccines.
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 mat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803992426 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803992425 |
| Author: | Rob Boddice |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The History Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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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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