Knowledge, Actors and Strategies: Smallpox Vaccination in Mexico City, 1803-1872

This article examines the multiple actors and varied strategies that contributed to turn smallpox vaccination into a central – albeit inconsistent – practice in Mexico City between 1803, when the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition began, and 1872, when the Superior Board of Health took over the...

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Main Author: Claudia Agostoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2019-02-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/75397