{"id":4526,"date":"2017-12-04T22:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2017-12-05T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:21:07","slug":"had-your-flu-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2017\/12\/04\/had-your-flu-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Had your flu shot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the USA, the first week of December is National Influenza Vaccination Week. With flu activity highest between December and February, the Week publicises the benefits of getting a flu shot in terms of reducing the risk of individuals getting sick themselves or of infecting those around them.<\/p>\n<p>Although today&#8217;s flu vaccine is generally accepted as part of a modern public health system, the longer story of vaccination is one of vociferous disputation and resistance.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of vaccination is considered to be Edward Jenner &#8211; though earlier forms were practised in China, India and Turkey.\u00a0 In 1796 Jenner used cowpox material to create immunity to smallpox and in 1798 he published\u00a0<i>An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vacciniae.<\/i>\u00a0Despite opposition within the medical profession and religious aversion to the use of animal material, by 1801 his report had been translated into other languages and widely disseminated. Many thousands of people were vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccination programmes since then have contributed to the control or eradication of smallpox, polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, meningococcus and pneumococcus. Recent vaccination programmes are combatting\u00a0rotavirus, human papillomaviruses, and shingles.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In LSHTM Library&#8217;s <em>Barnard Classification Scheme<\/em>,\u00a0books on vaccination are found within classmark &#8220;H&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vaccinology2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4556 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vaccinology2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vaccinology : an Essential Guide\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vaccinology2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vaccinology2-54x54.jpg 54w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vaccinology2-148x148.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Books on the pharmacology and therapeutic use of vaccines are at &#8220;HG&#8221;, and include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;Vaccinology : an essential guide&#8221;<\/em> edited by Gregg N. Milligan and Alan D.T. Barrett (2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Books on the history and politics of the subject are at &#8220;HI&#8221;, and include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/PoliticsOfVaccination.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4549\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/PoliticsOfVaccination-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"History and politics of vaccination\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/PoliticsOfVaccination-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/PoliticsOfVaccination-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/PoliticsOfVaccination-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/PoliticsOfVaccination.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Bodily Matters: the Anti-Vaccination Movement in England 1853-1907&#8221;<\/em> by Nadia Durbach (2005)<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;The Vaccine Controversy : the History, Use, and Safety of Vaccinations&#8221;<\/em> by Kurt Link (2005)<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;The Politics of Vaccination&#8221;<\/em> by Deborah Brunton (2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in some truly impassioned writing on both sides of the vaccination debate, LSHTM Library has a collection of books and pamphlets from the 1800s.\u00a0 Digitised as part of the Medical Heritage Library project and hosted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lshtmlibrary?and[]=vaccin*\">Internet Archive<\/a>, they are freely available online and can be downloaded as facsimiles, searched through as full-text or formatted for e-pub readers and Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few &#8220;for&#8221; vaccination:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/b21357079\">Vaccination vindicated: being an answer to the leading anti-vaccinators<\/a>\u00a0by John C. McVail (1887)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/b2135456x\">Vaccin\u00e6 vindicia or, defence of vaccination<\/a> by\u00a0Robert John Thornton (1806)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/b21362117\">Vaccination : its place and power<\/a> by Thomas M. Dolan (1883)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and a few &#8220;against&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/b21362646\">Vaccination and it&#8217;s evil consequences<\/a>\u00a0by John Morton (1875)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/b21356336\">Vaccination : a delusion<\/a> by Alfred Russel Wallace (1898)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/b21362154\">Vaccination : a reply to the question is vaccination scientific?<\/a>\u00a0 by George S. Gibbs (1884) &#8211; which ends with these words:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vacc-Gibbs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"211\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4576\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vacc-Gibbs.jpg\" alt=\"Vaccination. A reply to the question is vaccination scientific? \/ by George S. Gibbs\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vacc-Gibbs.jpg 782w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vacc-Gibbs-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/12\/Vacc-Gibbs-768x207.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the USA, the first week of December is National Influenza Vaccination Week. 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