Chapter 20

* Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Kerala.

1. ‘Long before Jenner’s discovery of vaccination using cowpox matter in 1798, there is evidence for the widespread use in several parts of the variolation (also called inoculation)’ (Marglin 1990: 105–106).

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