Durbach, Nadja: Bodily Matters: The Anti-vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907.(Book Review)

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Durbach, Nadja Bodily Matters: The Anti-vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 Durham: Duke University Press 276 pp., $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-3412-7 cloth ISBN 0-8223-3423-2 paper Publication Date: February 2005

Bodily Matters: The Anti-vaccination Movement in England is a clearly argued and detailed examination of the movement against compulsory smallpox vaccination that swept Britain from the beginning of compulsory vaccination in 1853 to the turn of the century. Nadja Durbach, an assistant professor at the University of Utah, argues that the ...

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