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Bodily matters : the anti-vaccination movement in England, 1853-1907 / Nadja Durbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durbach, Nadja, 1971-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Radical perspectives.
- Radical perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smallpox--Vaccination--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Smallpox.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considers the Victorian anti-vaccination movement in the context of debates over citizenship, parental rights, class politics, the significance of bodily integrity, the control of contagious disease, and state access to the bodies of both adult and infant
- Contents:
- The parliamentary lancet
- Fighting the "babies battle"
- Populism, citizenship, and the politics of Victorian liberalism
- The body politics of class formation
- Vampires, vivisectors, and the Victorian body
- Germs, dirt, and the constitution
- Class, gender, and the conscientious objector.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613024046
- 9781283024044
- 1283024047
- 9780822386506
- 082238650X
- OCLC:
- 220950721
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