Smallpox in Two Systems of Knowledge

Abstract

This chapter explores the themes of freedom and force in the context of one of the great success stories of modernization in India, which is the smallpox vaccination. The findings reveal that coercion was used to impose vaccination despite the availability of variolation as a good indigenous alternative. This chapter explains that though variolation involved a higher morbidity than vaccination, it was superior in techno-economic dimensions such as the cost of delivery and its availability in rural areas.

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