history assignment

Please read:

- Tim Fulford and Debbie Lee, “The Jenneration of Disease: Vaccination, Romanticism, and Revolution,” Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Spring, 2000) , pp. 139-163; Available in the Readings Folder and on JSTOR at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25601434 and,

- Edward Jenner, “An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae etc, 1798,” in Charles Nicoll Bancker Camac, Classics of Medicine and Surgery (New York: Dover Publications, 1909), pp. 213-240; Available as an E-Book in the Hagerty Library catalogue at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000861594;view=1up;seq=11

   Then discuss:  Read Fulford and Lee for the background of the campaign for vaccination, and then read Jenner’s essay (especially his introduction and Cases XVI and XVII, and his explanation of ‘experiment’ (pp. 230-231), and his conclusions.  Then discuss what was so controversial and how Jenner and his allies and critics resolved the debate.