Episode 11: Containment

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  2. Calef, Robert, More Wonders of the Invisible World: Or The Wonders of the Invisible World Displayed. In Five Parts, (Salem: Reprinted by John D. and T. C. Cushing, Jr. for Cushing and Appleton, 1823).

  3. Coss, Stephen. The Fever of 1721: the Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics. (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, and Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2017).

  4. Fenner, F., D. A. Henderon, I. Arita, Z. Jezek, and I. D. Ladnyi. 1988. Smallpox and Its Eradication. Geneva: World Health Organization.

  5. Glynn, Ian, and Jenifer Glynn. The Life and Death of Smallpox. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.

  6. “History of Smallpox.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 Aug. 2016, www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html.

  7. Hopkins, Jack W. 1989. The Eradication of Smallpox: Organizational Learning and Innovation in International Health. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

  8. “How a Public Health Crisis Nearly Derailed the American Revolution.” How a Smallpox Epidemic Nearly Derailed the American Revolution, 16 Apr. 2020, www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/george-washington-beat-smallpox-epidemic-with-controversial-inoculations/.

  9. “How the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic Changed Medicine, Launched a Free Press and Helped Win the American Revolution.” The World from PRX, 24 Sept. 2016, www.pri.org/stories/2016-09-24/how-1721-boston-smallpox-epidemic-changed-medicine-launched-free-press-and-helped.

  10. “How George Washington Used Vaccines to Help Win the Revolutionary War.” RealClearScience, 25 Sept. 2016, www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/09/how_vaccination_helped_win_the_revolutionary_war.html.

  11. Kelly, M.D., Howard A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography: Comprising the Lives of Eminent Deceased Physicians and Surgeons 1610-1910, (The Norman, Remington Company, 1912).

  12. Mather, C., & Jones, G. (1972). The angel of Bethesda: An essay upon the common maladies of mankind. Barre, Mass. (EE.UU.): American Antiquarian Society and Barre.

  13. Mather, Cotton, Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, (Printed at Boston in N. England: by R.P., 1689, sold by Joseph Brunning, 1689).

  14. Minardi, Margot. “The Boston Inoculation Controversy of 1721-1722: An Incident in the History of Race.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 1, 2004, pp. 47–76. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3491675.

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  16. “Smallpox: The World's First Eradicated Disease.” LiveScience, Purch, 23 Apr. 2019, www.livescience.com/65304-smallpox.html.

  17. “Smallpox.” World Health Organization, World Health Organization, 13 May 2020, www.who.int/csr/disease/smallpox/en/.

  18. “The Fight Over Inoculation During the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic.” Science in the News, 30 Oct. 2018, sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/special-edition-on-infectious-disease/2014/the-fight-over-inoculation-during-the-1721-boston-smallpox-epidemic/.

  19. “The Last 'Witch' Executed in Boston Was an Irish Speaker.” The Irish Times, The Irish Times, 24 Oct. 2016, www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/the-last-witch-executed-in-boston-was-an-irish-speaker-1.2827182.

  20. “The Myth That Goodwife Glover, the Irish Woman Executed for Witchcraft in Boston in 1688, Was an...” Medium, Medium, 27 Apr. 2019, medium.com/@Limerick1914/the-murder-of-goodwife-glover-in-boston-and-the-politicisation-of-her-death-two-centuries-later-via-90ab171fe576.

  21. “Tracing Smallpox Through the Burying Grounds.”  Historic Burying Grounds Initiative Newsletter Preserving Boston’s 16 Historic Burying Grounds, Spring 2015

  22. Volume 4 Edition 1,  https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/document_files/2016/12/hbgi_spring_2015_newsletter.pdf

  23. “WHO Commemorates the 40th Anniversary of Smallpox Eradication.” World Health Organization, World Health Organization, www.who.int/news-room/detail/13-12-2019-who-commemorates-the-40th-anniversary-of-smallpox-eradication.

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