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"Willrich's account of the early days of the American progressive movement couldn't be more instructive or timely...a worthy read." -"Booklist" (starred review) "Willrich melds meticulous research with elegant writing to create a richly- textured social history...at the charged intersection of science, politics, race, and culture...You'll never think the same way again about the now all-but- mechanical ritual of rolling up your shirtsleeve for a vaccine needle." -Hampton Sides, author of "Hellhound on His Trail" ..".In the highly skilled hands of Michael Willrich, hard cases make great history. We all have much to learn from this excellent book." -David Hackett Fischer, author of "Champlain's Dream" and "Washington's Crossing" "A fascinating, fast-paced story of America's last major smallpox epidemic...This is history at its best written by a master of his craft." -Michael J. Klarman, author of "From Jim Crow to Civil Rights" "Pox

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About the Author

Michael Willrich is the award-winning author of City of Courts. He is an associate professor of history at Brandeis University and a former journalist who wrote for The Washington Monthly, City Paper, The New Republic, and other magazines. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Product details

Series: Penguin History of American Life

Paperback: 432 pages

Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (March 27, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0143120786

ISBN-13: 978-0143120780

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.7 out of 5 stars

21 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#307,622 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This is a story of medical science and public health officials both battling fear, ignorance, stubbornness to new scientific advances and yet political and social engineering correctness of its day, all in the name of finding a way to treat and/or prevent smallpox more technically called variola. The expression MAY THE POX BE UPON YOU was considered one of the worse curses of earlier days and a play upon the title of this review.This is a 422 page book with 73 pages of cites, notes, and index, so is well researched and not casually written, yet it reads like a wonderful medical and social novel. The book opens with trying to pin down the beginning of the NYC smallpox outbreak at the turn of the 20th Century. It ascribes one of the early documented cases to Madeline Lyon a 12yo girl diagnosed on 11/27/1900 the Tuesday before Thanksgiving of that year.Over the centuries, smallpox was considered to be the deadliest contagious disease in the world with some 300 million deaths through the 20th century and an average mortality rate of 25-30%, but which could vary from a mere 10% to a staggering 60% depending on the strain involved. This struggle for a prevention or cure also turned out to be one of the first and one of the most important struggles for civil liberties regarding the fight against mandatory vaccination for the good of the populace as a whole, similar to the feelings some have about childhood vaccines today. Around the turn of the 20th Century and even somewhat later the disease was thought to be brought on by outsiders and predominantly male Negroes. And it is true that Blacks and males suffered in disproportionate degrees, but it was due primarily to their proximate living conditions in labor camps of the day and not due to race or gender. Yet, as it typical, society always needs someone to blame.Even though Edward Jenner discovered a vaccine to prevent smallpox by using the cowpox virus [the word vaccine comes from the Latin word vaccina referring to bovines] it wasn't officially eradicated until 1980, with the last documented case of young Somali girl on 10/31/1977.Smallpox was the disease upon which the field of immunology was founded, and helped spur the discovery of two important medical developments; the first being freeze dried vaccines which allowed their potency to last much longer and the second being the bi-bifurcated needle which allowed 4X as many people to be vaccinated with the same amount of innoculant.The novel aspect of the story is well told in the discussion of various epidemic outbreaks and how the medical and political teams worked together and against each other with each trying to maintain their respective fiefdoms. It is a great read for any person interested in medical history and scientific sleuthing.

C'mon Penguin, spring for an editor! The book covers important material but is so repetitive and disorganized it's practically unreadable. Too bad.

I had to read this book for a class and it was surprisingly interesting. Definitely puts the smallpox epidemic into the context of it's time.

This is about the conflicts in the history of immunization and it still goes on. The author did a great job with the research and writing.

This book was recommended to me by a niece. It is an interesting read. Never realized that smallpox was so rampant in the United States. Recommend to anyone interested in this type of history.

Boring, very boring.

I recommend this book to everyone.

I do a lot of reading into novel and re-emerging infections. This book falls about in the middle of the pack for interest and research. Readability is a bit different, however. It is simply very slow slogging through it.

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