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> Workshop (30th June and 1st July 2006):
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> Local transmutations of global phenomena: A historical reassessment
> of smallpox prevention, vaccination and the state
>
> Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University
> College London
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> Organisers:
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> Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy & Jennifer Keelan
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> Focus of the meeting:
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> Since the 1980s, local investigations into the social history of
> smallpox vaccination campaigns have raised more questions that they
> have answered. How differing technologies involved in vaccination
> impacted on the nature and extent of resistance remain somewhat
> obscure. The commonly prevailing notion of vaccination as an
> idealised and uniform technology has created serious problems for
> scholars interested in the historical epidemiology, social history,
> and demographic impact of vaccination on smallpox. It is becoming
> increasingly clear that vaccination had uncertain efficacy and that
> the science and medical technology cannot be disentangled from a
> myriad of social, political, and cultural factors. Vaccination
> technology and science were less transferred from country to
> country than they were re-created and adapted in diverse ways
> throughout the world. Still, fundamental questions regarding the
> efficacy and diffusion of different vaccine technologies remain
> unanswered. We propose a two-day inter-disciplinary workshop, whose
> participants have – and will – contribute to a growing body of
> literature on the history of smallpox and vaccination. We hope to
> revisit and perhaps reconcile the historical accounts of the
> specific nature of smallpox vaccination technologies and re-examine
> the diverse professional and public accounts of its efficacy. The
> mutable nature of smallpox, the diverse technologies used in its
> control and eradication, the complex interactions between the
> biological realities of the disease, the technologies employed, and
> the political formations that directed their implementation in the
> field will all be made the focus of detailed investigation; the
> conference, which will have speakers from all over the world, will
> have a global perspective, so that these important issues can
> compared and contrasted more effectively (we have managed to
> identify and invite scholars working on a range of themes and
> political/social/medical contexts).
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> PLEASE NOTE: LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE FOR THIS MEETING. TO
> REGISTER, PLEASE CONTACT DR. SANJOY BHATTACHARYA
> ([log in to unmask]) BY THE 28th OF JUNE 2006.
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> Harold J. Cook, Ph.D. FRCP (Hon.)
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> Professor and Director
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> Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University
> College London
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> 210 Euston Road
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> London NW1 2BE UK
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> [log in to unmask]
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> www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed
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> +44 (0)20 7879 8102
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