Osler’s Man’s Redemption of Man: Preemptive protection, attitudinal inoculation, and smallpox inoculation

I offer this case that Osler’s redemption message was not one of education, but instead, of inoculation.

Josh Compton

https://www.unco.edu/sassi/SASSIPROCEEDINGSII.pdf

One such specific purpose of Man’s Redemption of Man, I argue here, is to offer an (attitudinal) inoculation treatment of sorts on the topic of (medical) inoculation; that is, to protect positive attitudes toward vaccinations against attacks on vaccinations.

Compton, J. (2018, March). Osler’s Man’s Redemption of Man: Preemptive protection, attitudinal inoculation, and smallpox inoculation. Proceedings of the 2018 conference of the Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery, edited by T. G. Endres.