A History of Vaccines and their Opponents

1. How vaccines work2. Medical science at the beginning of the 18th century3. Variolation: the early years in Britain and Europe4. Variolation in New England5. Variolation and American independence6. The introduction of vaccination in Britain and Europe7. The introduction of vaccination to America8. Making vaccination compulsory in Britain and Europe9. Vaccine mandates in the United States10. Anti-inoculation and anti-vaccination riots11. The Supreme Court weighs in12. The rise of anti-vaccine societies in Britain13. Anti-vaccination movements in the United States and Canada14. Medical liberty and vaccination15. Developments and dead ends in immunology16. Antibacterial vaccines and their opponents17. Polio vaccines and their opponents18. Measles, mumps, and rubella: three contentious virus diseases19. Safety and sexual promiscuity: hepatitis B, human papilloma virus, and influenza vaccines20. COVID-19: politics and disinformation21. Religious objections to vaccination22. Rational hesitancy: situations where hesitancy is and was appropriate