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Two Hundred Years of the Lancet: From Quack to Anti-Vax, or How the Lancet Took a Stand

Two Hundred Years of the Lancet: From Quack to Anti-Vax, or How the Lancet Took a Stand

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Two Hundred Years of the Lancet: From Quack to Anti-Vax, or How the Lancet Took a Stand

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Two Hundred Years of the Lancet: From Quack to Anti-Vax, or How the Lancet Took a Stand

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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Victorian periodicals review, 2023-09, Vol.56 (3), p.441-462

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English

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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

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This essay traces the rise of the Lancet from its humble nineteenth-century beginnings to its current status as one of the most prestigious medical journals. By examining the Lancet 's early years and the hopes of founding editor Thomas Wakely and his successors, I aim to reveal what distinguished this journal from others circulating at the time an...

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Two Hundred Years of the Lancet: From Quack to Anti-Vax, or How the Lancet Took a Stand

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_3062788102

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_3062788102

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0709-4698,1712-526X

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1712-526X

DOI

10.1353/vpr.2023.a927878

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