Table of Contents

Introduction
Vaccination in Early Nineteenth-Century England and Wales
The Creation of a Public Vaccination Service
Compulsory Vaccination and Divisions among Practitioners
Central Control over Public Vaccination
The Failure of Central Supervision
Challenges to Vaccination Policy
Ireland: The Failure of Poor Law Vaccination 1840-50
Failure and Success: Irish Public Vaccination 1850-80
Vaccination in Scotland: Victory for Practitioners
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography

Reviews

A major strength of this book is the inclusion of Ireland . . . in its coverage. . . .The book fills a gap in the historiography in this topic.
*VICTORIAN STUDIES*

Carefully researched and thoughtfully argued.
*MEDICAL HISTORY, January 2010*

One might wonder what could be more prosaic and representative of the new science-based government, than the administration of vaccination. But if vaccination exemplifies anything, it is interpretive flexibility, as Deborah Brunton elegantly shows. Vaccination programs evolved remarkably differently in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as groups of practitioners interpreted their interests differently, and as front line vaccinators struggled with London's biomedical elite to define vaccination expertise.
*Christopher Hamlin, Department of History, University of Notre Dame*

Not merely a classic of conciseness, indeed pithiness: three nations' vaccinal turning-points for the price of one, with jolting comparisons between all. --Logie Barrow, Historian of the British Isles; Bremen, Germany
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Deborah Brunton's monograph is welcome for opening up the professional and political sides of the vaccination issue, and especially for extending the geographical focus of inquiry to include Ireland and Scotland. [.] The insights she provides into contemporary medical issues are very valuable. http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/692
*REVIEWS IN HISTORY (SPECIAL 'HEALTH IN HISTORY' ISSUE), July 2011*