Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 Durbach Nadja
Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 Durbach Nadja Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and…
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Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 Durbach Nadja
Bodily Matters explores the anti-vaccination movement that emerged in England in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth in response to government-mandated smallpox vaccination. From its inception in 1853 until its demise in 1907, the compulsory smallpox vaccine was fiercely resisted, largely by members of the working class who interpreted it as an infringement of their rights as citizens and a violation of their children's bodies. By requiring a painful and sometimes dangerous medical procedure for all infants, the Compulsory Vaccination Act set an important precedent for state regulation of bodies.
Nadja Durbach contends that the anti-vaccination movement is historically significant not only because it was arguably the largest medical resistance campaign ever mounted in Europe but also because it clearly articulated pervasive anxieties regarding the integrity of the
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