{"product_id":"9781487546595-smallpox-report","title":"The Smallpox Report","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative\u003cbr\u003eThe Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In \u003ci\u003eThe Smallpox Report\u003c\/i\u003e, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book offers a literary-historical account of smallpox vaccination, contending that the disease’s eventual eradication in 1980 was as much a triumph of the literary imagination as it was an achievement of medical Enlightenment science. Wang traces our modern pandemic-era crisis of vaccine hesitancy back to Edward Jenner’s publication of his treatise on vaccination in 1798, the first rumblings of an anti-vaccination movement, and vaccination’s formative literary history that included authors such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book concludes with a re-examination of the current deeply contentious public discourse about vaccines that has arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By recovering the surprisingly literary genres of Romantic-era medical writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Smallpox Report\u003c\/i\u003e models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40866054471777,"sku":"9781487546595","price":50.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38191802_e3fb421d-60cf-4668-9fde-572a04db42f4.jpg?v=1763787410","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781487546595-smallpox-report","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}