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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
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> 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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