Theme Week: Infectious Disease, Contagion and the History of Vaccines

This theme week initially ran in March and April 2015

• Introduction (Jim Clifford, Erika Dyck, Ian Mosby)
• “Be Wise – Immunize!”: Vaccine Promotion in Canada During the 20th Century (Catherine Carstairs)
• Victory with Vaccines? A  Modified Account for the Twenty-first Century (Anne Hardy)
• Funding, failures, and faux pas: Vaccines and the complicated task of sharing responsibility for global health (Casey Hurrell)
• Bacille de Calmette-Guérin, or BCG Vaccine for Tuberculosis (Maureen Lux)
• Quarantined but Not Forgotten: Combatting Vaccination Resistance with Historical Education(Sara Wilmshurst)
• The Vaccination Experience: Historical Insights from Children and Families (Mona Gleason)
• Personifying Pestilence: How Political Cartoons Shape Our Views of Disease (Jacob Steere-Williams)
• An Epidemic in Madness? (Mat Sevilli and Erika Dyck)
• Animal Matter: The Making of ‘Pure’ Bovine Vaccine at the Connaught Laboratories and Farm at the Turn of the Century (Joanna Dean)
• A Brief History of Vaccines in Colonial Africa (Jessica Pearson-Patel)
• Vaccines and the Environmental History of Medicine (Lisa Piper)