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Article: Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2007
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Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907. By Nadja Durbach (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 296 pp. $22.95PB).
I have recently been exposed to quite a number of explanations about how vaccines contribute to asthma, allergies, and auto-immune problems and that's just the list of "a"s. If I were to go through the full alphabet of diseases that vaccinations allegedly caused, one would wonder why we are still alive as a species since vaccines are so dangerous. Having read Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907, I am struck by the consistency of attitudes over time despite the lack of historical awareness ...