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Author:   Kim Tolley
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9781421447612

ISBN 10:   1421447614
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   30 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Tables, Figures, and Charts Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Long Fight against Smallpox: From Support to Complacency and Opposition 1. The Rise of School Vaccination Laws 2. The National Anti-vaccination Societies and the Schools 3. Taking Schools to Court: The Legal Battles 4. Schools against Vaccination Mandates: A Case Study Part II. A Sea Change: From Persuasion to Compulsion in the Quest for Herd Immunity 5. Schools and the Campaign against Polio 6. Schools in the Age of Eradication 7. Vaccine Hesitancy and the Rise of Personal Belief Exemptions 8. The Twenty-First-Century Effort to Preserve Immunity in Schools Conclusion Appendix. Selected Court Cases and Rulings Cited in the Text, 1830-2021 Notes Archival and Digitized Sources Index

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Kim Tolley is a historian of education and professor emerita at Notre Dame de Namur University. She is the author of The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective and editor of Professors in the Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct Faculty in America.

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