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Doctor Therne
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Dr James Therne is a capable physician whose career and finances are damaged by professional rivalry. Although he understands the value of vaccination, he adopts the anti-vaccination cause to win political support and a parliamentary seat, allowing ambition to override his medical judgement.
A smallpox epidemic in Dunchester turns that compromise into a public catastrophe and a private tragedy. Written as a direct intervention in the Victorian vaccination controversy, the novel traces how misinformation, electoral opportunism and professional cowardice can convert preventable disease into mass death.
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