Considers the Victorian anti-vaccination movement in the context of debates over citizenship, parental rights, class politics, the significance of bodily integrity, the control of contagious disease, and state access to the bodies of both adult and infant

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Parliamentary Lancet 13
2. Fighting the “Babies’ Battle” 37
3. Populism, Citizenship, and the Politics of Victorian Liberalism 69
4. The Body Politics of Class Formation 91
5. Vampires, Vivisectors, and the Victorian Body 113
6. Germs, Dirt, and the Constitution 150
7. Class, Gender, and the Conscientious Objector 171
Conclusion 199
Notes 209
Bibliography 243
Index 269

Nadja Durbach is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.