The Smallpox Report - Fuson Wang

The Smallpox Report

Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
258 Seiten
2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4659-5 (ISBN)
59,95 inkl. MwSt
The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.
After 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 The Smallpox Report, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination.

The 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, The Smallpox Report models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal.

Fuson Wang is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Part One: Classification

Introduction
1. Wordsworth’s Romantic Path to Biopower

Part Two: Experimentation

2. Darwin’s Evolutionary Metaphor
3. Blake’s Revolutionary Metaphor

Part Three: Interdisciplinarity

4. Keats and the End of Disease
5. Shelley and Romantic Immunity

Part Four: Modern Biopower

6. The Case of Sherlock Holmes
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 15 colour illustrations
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 1-4875-4659-9 / 1487546599
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-4659-5 / 9781487546595
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