Anti-Condescensionism
Susan Pedersen: The fear of needles, 1 September 2005
Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907
by Nadja Durbach.
Duke, 276 pp., £14.95, March 2005,0 8223 3423 2 Show More
by Nadja Durbach.
Duke, 276 pp., £14.95, March 2005,
“... as a Jewish plot aimed at infecting ‘Christian children’ with monkey-borne diseases.) Nadja Durbach must find little of this surprising, for today’s controversies echo the mass movement against compulsory smallpox vaccination which flourished in Britain in the second half of the 19th century and which forms the subject of her timely and ... ”
