June 2017
The paper Struggling to a monumental triumph: re-assessing the final phases of the smallpox eradication program in India, 1960-1980, published in HCS-Manguinhos in 2007, attempts to present a complex description of the drive to eradicate smallpox, that goes beyond the WHO headquarters in Geneva and the agency’s regional offices.
Rural vaccination, British India, 1930. Source: Centre for Global Health Histories, University of York.
Based on the example of India, a major focus of the campaign, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, director of the Centre for Global Health Histories (University of York), argues that historians and public health officials should recognize the varying roles played by a much wider range of participants.
Highlighting the significance of both Indian and international field officials, the author shows how bureaucrats and politicians at different levels of administration and society managed to strengthen—yet sometimes weaken—important program components.
According to the paper, the successful outcome of the smallpox eradication program demanded persistent hard work by a range of Indian and international officials.
Read in Manguinhos:
Bhattacharya, Sanjoy. Struggling to a monumental triumph: re-assessing the final phases of the smallpox eradication program in India, 1960-1980. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2007, vol.14, no.4, p.1113-1129. ISSN 0104-5970
Soumonni, Elisée. Disease, religion and medicine:smallpox in nineteenth-century Benin. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2012, vol.19, suppl.1, p.35-45. ISSN 0104-5970
Palmer, Steven, Hochman, Gilberto and Arbex, Danieli. Smallpox eradication, laboratory visits, and a touch of tourism: travel notes of a Canadian scientist in Brazil. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.777-790. ISSN 0104-5970
Hochman, Gilberto and Palmer, Steven. Smallpox eradication and Brazil: an interview with Donald A. Henderson. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.759-775. ISSN 0104-5970
Hochman, Gilberto and Palmer, Steven Smallpox eradication and Brazil: an interview with Donald A. Henderson. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.759-775. ISSN 0104-5970
Palmer, Steven, Hochman, Gilberto and Arbex, Danieli. Smallpox eradication, laboratory visits, and a touch of tourism: travel notes of a Canadian scientist in Brazil. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.777-790. ISSN 0104-5970
Agostoni, Claudia. Control, contención y educación higiénica en las campañas de vacunación contra la viruela en México durante la década de 1940. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2015, vol.22, no.2, p.355-370. ISSN 0104-5970
