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7. Nadja Durbach: ''Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907'' – This work explores the science and social history of smallpox. Durbach's work is perhaps one of the most relevant on this list in these modern times when anti-vaccination activists are opposing such important medical discoveries. In England, the Compulsory Vaccination Act made smallpox vaccines mandatory for all children, beginning in 1853 -- such an a statute was considered by many working-class Englishmen and women as an infringement upon their natural rights, and was met with fierce indignation.
8. W.F. Bynum & Roy Porter: ''Medical Fringe and Medical Orthodoxy 1750-1850'' – During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there was no consensus as to what constituted “accepted” medicine, and what constituted “alternative” medicine – they simply blended together. This work studies this important time when demarcations between scientifically-validated medicine, and holistic/alternative medicine were being made.
