{"product_id":"the-smallpox-report-fuson-wang-9781487546595","title":"The Smallpox Report: Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In \u003ci\u003eThe Smallpox Report\u003c\/i\u003e, Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book offers a literary-historical account of smallpox vaccination, contending that the disease's eventual eradication in 1980 was as much a triumph of the literary imagination as it was an achievement of medical Enlightenment science. Wang traces our modern pandemic-era crisis of vaccine hesitancy back to Edward Jenner's publication of his treatise on vaccination in 1798, the first rumblings of an anti-vaccination movement, and vaccination's formative literary history that included authors such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book concludes with a re-examination of the current deeply contentious public discourse about vaccines that has arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By recovering the surprisingly literary genres of Romantic-era medical writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Smallpox Report\u003c\/i\u003e models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fuson Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487546599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487546595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.94d","brand":"Fuson Wang","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079216165119,"sku":"9781487546595","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb6659b2-bb5f-49ad-a648-d3e9f2cde677.jpg?v=1685479849","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-smallpox-report-fuson-wang-9781487546595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}