Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907 (Radical Perspectives)
“All too often the large-scale resistance to compulsory vaccination in England has been treated as a quaint case study in ‘anti-modern’ or ‘irrational’ opposition to scientific progress. Nadja Durbach has made a key contribution to modern British history in particular and to the analysis of class culture more generally by rescuing this resistance to state medicine from what E. P. Thompson memorably termed ‘the enormous condescension of posterity.’”—George Behlmer, author ofFriends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850–1940