About this Event
Anti-vaccination so often gets discussed as if it were a modern problem of the relatively recent or even immediate present: as anti-science/pseudoscience, as religious fundamentalism, as neoliberal choice, as the dangers of Bih Pharma. But these claims often become explicitly ahistorical: debates over the efficacy and legitimacy of vaccination, as well as its potential effects, dates back to its inception as a medical practice popularized by Edward Jenner in the late 1790s. Turning to the late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century vaccination debates, this talk explores the role of literature and visual culture as they were mobilized by proponents both for and against vaccination.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Marquette University 707 HUB, 1102 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, United States
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