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Concept

Vaccination of children

Images

  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • A doctor vaccinating children in a clinic, other mothers and children are waiting, in the background is a man getting serum from a cow. Photogravure after J. Scalbert, 1890.
  • A man vaccinating a young child held by its mother, with other members of the household looking on. Oil painting by L.-L. Boilly, ca. 1806.
  • Vaccination: "Dr Jenner performing his first vaccination, 1796". Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • A father looks over his vaccinated, ugly child and is glad that his face will be spared the blemishes of smallpox. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1846.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy / Melissa Leach.

    Leach, Melissa. | Date: 2005
    • Pictures

    China during the Cultural Revolution: a woman doctor inoculating a group of children with vaccines. Colour lithograph after Ma Lequn, 1974.

    Ma, Lequn. | Date: March 1974 | Reference: 661322i
    • Books

    Childhood vaccination : current controversies / [researched and written by Nicholas Wells].

    Wells, Nicholas E. J. | Date: [1984], ©1984
    • Books

    Deadly choices : how the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all / Paul A. Offit.

    Offit, Paul A. | Date: [2011], ©2011
    • Books

    Immunization in practice : a guide for health workers who give vaccines / World Health Organization.

    | Date: 1996, ©1989
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