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Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield

Cilt: 9 Sayı: 1 29 Haziran 2022
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Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield

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The pandemic due to covid-19 that people throughout the world have been exposed to since 2019 arouses curiosity about the situations experienced in epidemic cases throughout human history. When one is in search of such cases, one can encounter that the scientists or physicians dealing with contagious diseases had difficulties in even the phase of the eradication of the disease by means of vaccination. Edward Jenner, who became the father of immunology owing to his invention of the vaccination against smallpox, was one of those physicians having difficulties in persuading local people to have vaccination. It is known that Jenner, aspiring to eradicate smallpox, asked for help from Robert Bloomfield, a labouring-class poet. As a poet, Bloomfield’s only power was his poetry. Thus he wrote Good Tidings; or News from the Farm in 1804 to convince people to be vaccinated and to save them from prevalent absurd rumours and superstitions about the vaccine; and as such, to encourage them to be vaccinated against the deadly disease. Then the purpose of this study is to analyze Bloomfield’s mentioned poem in respect of its content to demonstrate how powerful a literary work could be to lead people towards the scientific, and that a poem may be an appropriate means to be used in the annihilation of an epidemic.

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Kaynakça

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

29 Haziran 2022

Gönderilme Tarihi

7 Mart 2022

Kabul Tarihi

5 Mayıs 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2022 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA
Zengin, M. (2022). Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield. Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 9(1), 86-101. https://doi.org/10.30803/adusobed.1083862
AMA
1.Zengin M. Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield. ADUSOBIED. 2022;9(1):86-101. doi:10.30803/adusobed.1083862
Chicago
Zengin, Mevlude. 2022. “Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield”. Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 9 (1): 86-101. https://doi.org/10.30803/adusobed.1083862.
EndNote
Zengin M (01 Haziran 2022) Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield. Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 9 1 86–101.
IEEE
[1]M. Zengin, “Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield”, ADUSOBIED, c. 9, sy 1, ss. 86–101, Haz. 2022, doi: 10.30803/adusobed.1083862.
ISNAD
Zengin, Mevlude. “Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield”. Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 9/1 (01 Haziran 2022): 86-101. https://doi.org/10.30803/adusobed.1083862.
JAMA
1.Zengin M. Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield. ADUSOBIED. 2022;9:86–101.
MLA
Zengin, Mevlude. “Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield”. Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, c. 9, sy 1, Haziran 2022, ss. 86-101, doi:10.30803/adusobed.1083862.
Vancouver
1.Mevlude Zengin. Poetry as a Device to Convince Antivaccinationists: Good Tidings; Or, News From the Farm by Robert Bloomfield. ADUSOBIED. 01 Haziran 2022;9(1):86-101. doi:10.30803/adusobed.1083862

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