The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative by Wang, Fuson
The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative by Wang, Fuson

The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative

After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at...
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Author: Fuson Wang
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The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative by Wang, Fuson

The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative

$254.83
The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative by Wang, Fuson

The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative

$254.83
Author: Fuson Wang
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.



Author: Fuson Wang
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781487546595
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