{"id":25467,"date":"2023-05-29T08:10:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=232510"},"modified":"2023-05-29T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T13:11:34","slug":"simon-schama-on-how-inoculation-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/simon-schama-on-how-inoculation-changed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Schama on how inoculation changed the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Simon Schama discusses how scientific ingenuity and the fear of contagion combined to produce life-saving vaccines <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Matt Elton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 29 May 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>As the recent past will attest, the discovery of vaccines can not only save lives, but also change the course of human history. Speaking with Matt Elton, Simon Schama explores the story of inoculation, charting the individuals and organisations who played a pivotal role in its use against deadly diseases including plague, smallpox and cholera.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-232510-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/howinnoculationsavedtheworld-a1749a9.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/howinnoculationsavedtheworld-a1749a9.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/howinnoculationsavedtheworld-a1749a9.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Simon Schama is the author of <em>Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/return-of-the-tribes-a-memory-simon-schama\/2969673?ean=9781471169892&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/RETURN-OF-THE-TRIBES-HA\/dp\/1471169898?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fforeign-bodies%2Fsimon-schama%2F9781471169892&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Help us develop the HistoryExtra podcast offering by taking part in our latest research:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/immediateinsiders.com\/uc\/admin\/b7a7\/?a=1&amp;b=&amp;c=3&quot;\">Get started now<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Simon Schama discusses how scientific ingenuity and the fear of contagion combined to produce life-saving vaccines <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":25468,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/simon-schama-on-how-inoculation-changed-the-world.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/simon-schama-on-how-inoculation-changed-the-world-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/simon-schama-on-how-inoculation-changed-the-world-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/simon-schama-on-how-inoculation-changed-the-world.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/simon-schama-on-how-inoculation-changed-the-world.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/simon-schama-on-how-inoculation-changed-the-world.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/simon-schama-on-how-inoculation-changed-the-world.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Simon Schama discusses how scientific ingenuity and the fear of contagion combined to produce life-saving vaccines","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/25467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}