The Speckled Monster
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Manufacturer: Plume
Written By: Jennifer Lee Carrell
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.521
EAN: 9780452285071
ISBN: 0452285070
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: 2004-01-27
Publisher: Plume
Release Date: 2004-01-27
Studio: Plume
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Editorial Reviews for The Speckled Monster
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The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again.
Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, two iconoclastic figures who helped save London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known.
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Summary: Top Notch History and Great Read
Comment: In The Speckled Monster, Carrell has written both an enlightening and entertaining account of the introduction of smallpox inoculation in both Europe and the United States. She conveys the profoundly devastating effect that this disease has had on world history. Through her delightful portrayal of the human actors in the struggle to bring inoculation to Western countries, Carrell delivers a fascinating and enjoyable read.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Comment: Maybe it's because I have a degree in both history and English, but this book suited my taste perfectly, and I was surprised at the negative reviews. I picked up the book and finished it in two days because I couldn't put it down. Ms. Carrell has made the tale read like a historical whodunit. I read her chapter, then her endnotes. If you like historical fiction and you also like historical nonfiction, I think you would enjoy this book.
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Summary: medicine vs politics
Comment: Not since Laurie Garret's THE COMING PLAGUE have I enjoyed a book more. The detail of the research is tremendous and the story it tells-- of a medical breakthrough for the western world despite politics, racism and ignorance is fascinating. It is so easy to lose sight of the true terror caused by this disease. Carrell's work brings it to life.
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Summary: Too Much Fluff
Comment: Jennifer Carrell is a gifted writer, but she misjudged the approach to rendering what should have been a fascinating topic. The book should have been 100 pages shorter. I got halfway through and gave up; I refuse to spend that much time reading through so much irrelevant and/or fabricated extraneous filler.
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Summary: Eye-opening... historically fascinating....but.....
Comment: The book has a great story to tell... but, I wish Ms. Carrell had written it more clearly..
I find myself jumping around, skipping boring, antiquated writing passages to get to the real historic juice of this story.
I know Ms. Carrell is a scholar, but I think even scholars can (and have) written passionate books without sinking in to intellectual drudgery.
This book plods along.. I want to know things.. and I have to wade through a lot of rhetoric to get there.
I will get to the end of this book.. but, I wish the author had written it without the 18th century drudgery. Wow, this book is hard to get through.. But, I am hungry for the info.. so, I'll carry on.
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