Alfred Russel Wallace and the Antivaccination Movement in Victorian England

Alfred Russel Wallace, eminent naturalist and codiscoverer of the principle of natural selection, was a major participant in the antivaccination campaigns in late 19th-century England. Wallace combined social reformism and quantitative arguments to undermine the claims of provaccinationists and had...

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Main Author: Thomas P. Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/4/09-0434_article