Colonial Context (Wed 1/25)
by Prof. Hangen - January 25th, 2017
Reading for Today: Burnham, Health Care in America, Ch 1-2
Links for Today, re: Smallpox Inoculation in Boston
Dramatization of a Smallpox Inoculation / HBO’s John Adams (2008)
Interview with Stephen Coss, author of The Fever of 1821
The Fight Over Inoculation During the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic (Harvard Science in the News)
The Boston Smallpox Epidemic (Contagion: Harvard Open Collections) – with original sources
For Monday:
Read Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “1787: Exceeding Dangerously Ill” from A Midwife’s Tale (1991) – it’s posted as a PDF on Blackboard under “Readings”
Please bring laptops to class on Monday, as we’ll be exploring a digital version of the diary Ulrich used to write this essay.
