The antivaccine heresy : Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the troubled history of compulsory vaccination in the United States /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Walloch, Karen L.
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015.
Series:	Rochester studies in medical history.
Subjects:	Vaccination > United States > History > 20th century. Immunization of children > United States. Vaccination of children > Complications. Vaccination > history. Vaccination > legislation & jurisprudence. Refusal to Participate > history. Mandatory Programs > history. Massachusetts. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Vaccination in nineteenth-century America
Problems with vaccination in the nineteenth century
The 1901-2 Smallpox epidemic in Boston and Cambridge
The hazards of vaccination in 1901-2
Massachusetts antivaccinationists
Immanuel Pfeiffer versus the Boston Board of Health
The 1902 campaign to amend the compulsory vaccination laws
Criminal prosecution of the antivaccinationists
Jacobson v. Massuchusetts
Conclusion
Appendix A: Boston Health Department Vaccinations, 1872-1900
Appendix B: Voting Records for Samuel Durgin's Vaccination Bill before the Massachusetts State Senate.