Preparation
Read The Spotted Pimple of Death (Ch. 1, pp. 23-29) and Milkmaid Envy and a Fear of Modernity (Ch. 2, pp.30-38). Links to the PDFs are below.
These are the first chapters of a wonderful book about social controversy over vaccination titled The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin. [SWEM] [Amazon] [Readings]
For Your Notebook: What similarities and differences to you see between the antivaccination movements associated with smallpox, and those of the modern day?
Discussion
CDC immunization schedules
Misinformation age
The most relevant segment starts:ends at 4:24 mins.
Further Reading/Watching
- Smallpox (I): The Speckled Monster (Lecture 6) and Smallpox (II): Jenner, Vaccination, and Eradication (Lecture 7) of Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 with Frank Snowden. [50 min. each]. Written version can be found in Chs. 6-7 of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present by Frank Snowden. The eBook is available to W&M students via [SWEM Online].
APSC 453 Science & Authority 
