Jennifer Lee Carrell: The Speckled Monster

Cover: 9780452285071 | The Speckled Monster | A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox | Buch

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The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again.

Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, two iconoclastic figures who helped save London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known.

Über den Autor

Jennifer Lee Carrell holds a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Harvard University and is the author of The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox. In addition to writing for Smithsonian magazine, Carrell has taught in the history and literature program at Harvard and has directed Shakespeare for Harvard’s Hyperion Theatre Company. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Speckled MonsterAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. London
1. Two Marys
2. Three Rebellions
3. A Destroying Angel
4. Bidding the World Adieu
5. My Dear Little Son
6. Rosebuds in Lily Skin

Part Two. Boston
1. Zabdiel and Jerusha
2. Curiosities of the Smallpox
3. The Beauty of the Sea
4. Caging the Monster
5. Demonic Wings
6. Fathers and Sons

Part Three. Hell Upon Earth
1. Salutation Alley
2. Prying Multitudes
3. An Infusion of Malignant Filth
4. The Castle of Misery
5. Signs and Wonders
6. Newgate
7. An Hour of Mourning
8. The King's Pardon
9. Raw Head and Bloody Bones
10. Just Retribution
11. In Royal Fashion

Aftermath
1. Meetings and Partings
2. The Practice
3. The People

Notes
Abbreviations
Sources
Bibliography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Genre:	Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780452285071
ISBN-10:	0452285070
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Carrell, Jennifer Lee
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Maße:	210 x 140 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Jennifer Lee Carrell
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.01.2004
Gewicht:	0,61 kg

Artikel-ID: 102515868