Abstract
The essay analyzes the attitude of the medical class of Southern Italy towards smallpox vaccination, highlighting a general attitude of lukewarmness, motivated on the one hand by reasons of professional decorum and by convictions of doctrinal nature, but on the other, also by base reasons of a venal nature.
Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] The medical class in the face of anti-violent vaccination in the pre-unification Mezzogiorno |
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Original language | Italian |
Title of host publication | Le malattie contagiose e diffusive nel Mezzogiorno ed in Capitanata tra il XVIII e il XIX secolo |
Editors | Lorenzo Pellegrino, Mario Freda |
Pages | 39-48 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- vaccination, small pox, medical class, Southern Italy
- vaccinazione, vaiolo, classe medica, Mezzogiorno