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SUMMARY:LECTURE | From Variolation to Vaccination: The Transformation of Disease Prevention in the Early Republic (1796–c.1825)  
DESCRIPTION:From Variolation to Vaccination: The Transformation of Disease Prevention in the Early Republic (1796–c.1825)   \nForensic anthropologist Anna Dhody traces America’s dramatic shift from dangerous variolation to revolutionary vaccination\, revealing a founding-era debate about trust\, authority\, and what it meant to be American that feels strikingly familiar today.  \nTickets: $15 | $12.50 Virtual | $10 Members * This lecture will be offered in person and via Zoom.  \nBio |  Anna N. Dhody\, MFS is the Founder and Executive Director of the Dhody Research Institute. She was previously the Gretchen Worden Curatorial Chair\, Mütter Museum and Director\, Mütter Research Institute of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. She received her BA in archaeology from Boston University\, Masters in Forensic Science from The George Washington University. A forensic anthropologist\, Ms. Dhody previously served as an osteologist at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and worked with the United Nations Development Programme and the Public Ministry of Peru to identify some of the estimated 69\,000 “Desaparecidos” victims of state terrorism. Ms. Dhody is a member of the Vidocq Society\, a Consulting Scholar at The University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and was appointed a Fulbright Specialist in 2023 in museum studies and physical anthropology.
URL:https://wdsmuseum.org/event/lecture-from-variolation-to-vaccination-the-transformation-of-disease-prevention-in-the-early-republic-1796-c-1825/
LOCATION:WDS Museum\, 211 Main Street\, Wethersfield\, CT\, 06109
CATEGORIES:Learning Series,Lecture
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