Vaccination in Historical Perspective: Research Seminar

Harvard FAS

Vaccination is among the oldest and most effective of medical interventions, yet paradoxically, it is also one of the most controversial. This course will examine the history of vaccination specific historical episodes in which it was utilized to prevent illness, disability, and death, as well as associated scientific, social, and political controversies. Although historians have long chronicled the development of vaccines and allied public health campaigns, the historiography of…