# From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Gareth Williams
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, History
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/jenner-wakefield-long-shadow-anti-vaccination-movement)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet published an article by Andrew Wakefield questioning the benefits of the MMR vaccination which was being given unquestioningly to children throughout the UK. Coming 202 years after the first vaccination by Edward Jenner, which led to the eradication of smallpox throughout the world, this recent incident is only the latest in a long history of questioning the benefits of vaccination.

## Lectures

1. [From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/jenner-wakefield-long-shadow-anti-vaccination-movement/3fbaa616ff21) (YouTube)