Important Source Documents for 570–1799
Below you will find select references for the earliest TUVT entries
A Short History of Biological Warfare: From Pre-History to the 21st Century
National Defense University
Bubonic Plague: Historical Aspects and Therapies
Mil. Med. Sci. Lett. (Voj. Zdrav. Listy) 2015, vol. 84(2), p. 67-75
Cortopassi et al.
Variolation and vaccination in late imperial China, ca. 1570-1911
Angela Ki Che Leung
History of Vaccine Development
Stanley Plotkin
History of Variolation
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Hwang K. Development of variolation and its introduction to Joseon-era Korea.
J Trauma Inj. 2024;37(4):247-249
Important books
History of Vaccine Development
Edited by Stanley A. Plotkin (2011)
US$217
Edited by the Godfather of Vaccinology, Dr. Stanley A. Plotkin.
"Vaccinology, the concept of a science ranging from the study of immunology to the development and distribution of vaccines, was a word invented by Jonas Salk. This book covers the history of the methodological progress in vaccine development and to the social and ethical issues raised by vaccination."
Plotkin's Vaccines
Edited by Stanley A. Plotkin et al. (2021)
US$389
First published in 1988 and currently in its 8th Edition, Vaccines is edited by Stanley A. Plotkin and Walter A. Orenstein, this book is available via Amazon or any self-respecting medical library.
“A Short History of Vaccination.”
Includes discussions of various types of smallpox inoculation techniques in seventeenth century China, their migration to England via the Ottoman Empire, and the modern vaccination techniques that resulted.
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Roy Porter (1999)
US$7
Written by one of the world's leading medical historians, Englishman Roy Porter (1946–2002) was director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College London (UCL) until his retirement in 2001.
"Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind."
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