Waldemar Haffkine created the world's first vaccines for cholera and plague. Then a disaster derailed his life.
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Waldemar Haffkine, together with his colleagues, performs a cholera vaccination on inhabitants of Calcutta, 1894. To convince the Indians that...
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In “Foreign Bodies,” Simon Schama studies pandemics past and present, and how much — and little — we have learned.
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'Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations' by Simon Schama is a narrative history of pandemics and vaccines that also...
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In 1860 a Jewish boy named Waldemar Haffkine is born in Odesa, in the shadow of the fiery pogroms that would only intensify as late-imperial...
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The historian examines how medical knowledge and political force intersect to fight epidemic disease.
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The historian brings his considerable literary talents to this study of how blame, often mixed with antisemitism, has attended disease and...
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A “fine and foxy” man in his prime, Schama calls him, with a remarkable back-story: he was one of a group of Jewish students and young...
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Our world has gone through a tragic and substantially devastating period when it comes to health, wealth and longevity of the humans,...
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Who was Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, a Ukrainian Jew, and why was he compared to Alfred Dreyfus?
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