Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States
by
Karen L. Walloch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. In response, antivaccination societies formed all over the United States, lobbying state legislatures and bringing lawsuits...