논쟁으로부터 배우기 -백신 반대론자와 초기 제너백신의 효용성과 안전성 논쟁- = Learning from Controversy: Anti-vaccinators and Early Debate over the Effectiveness and Safety of Jennerian Vaccination

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This research explores the medical debate over the effectiveness and safety of cowpox vaccination against smallpox during the early vaccine years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The historiography of early Jennerian vaccination has built up heavily focused on the discoverer of the cowpox vaccine, Edward Jenner, vaccine supporters, and the worldwide dissemination of the new technology. However, this precious technology, which helped humankind take its first steps toward the eradication of smallpox in 1980, was not accepted without debate and opposition. By exploring the professional criticism of early Jennerian vaccination, in particular, from anti-vaccinators, this research reconstructs the impetuses of the first vaccine’s controversies, including scientific skepticism, fear and wariness, and professional competition over the new medical technology. In doing so, this study contributes to the construction of a more comprehensive historical context for early vaccination and argues for the importance and usefulness of understanding the history of medical technology from the perspectives of conflict and opposition as well as acceptance.
(Ewha Womans University / [e-mail])

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