Often overlooked in the history of that inoculation is an enslaved man who had been brought to Boston named Onesimus, according to experts.
Inoculated against smallpox in Africa, Onesimus testified that purposely infecting a person with a disease protected them against dying from the virus. It was vital in starting the first smallpox inoculations in Boston.
The episode is important for the history of public health and scientific innovation [and] important for the history of race relations, Harvard history of science professor David S. Jones said.
Yet Onesimus role in Boston s first inoculations was for years less well-known than the man who owned him, the influential preacher Cotton Mather, famous for his role in the Salem witch trials.
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Often overlooked in the history of that inoculation is an enslaved man who had been brought to Boston named Onesimus, according to experts.
Inoculated against smallpox in Africa, Onesimus testified that purposely infecting a person with a disease protected them against dying from the virus. It was vital in starting the first smallpox inoculations in Boston.
The episode is important for the history of public health and scientific innovation [and] important for the history of race relations, Harvard history of science professor David S. Jones said.
Yet Onesimus role in Boston s first inoculations was for years less well-known than the man who owned him, the influential preacher Cotton Mather, famous for his role in the Salem witch trials.
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New research explores why people ultimately engage in ideological violence
Learning more about what motivates people to join violent ideological groups and engage in acts of cruelty against others is of great social and societal importance.
New research from Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYUAD Jocelyn Bélanger explores the idea of ideological obsession as a form of addictive behavior that is central to understanding why people ultimately engage in ideological violence, and how best to help them break this addiction.
In the new study, The Sociocognitive Processes of Ideological Obsession: Review and Policy Implications which appears in the journal