Gronim Sara Stidstone
Department of History, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, USA.
Bull Hist Med. 2006 Summer;80(2):247-68. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2006.0057.
People in colonial New York adopted inoculation for smallpox as quickly and as thoroughly as did people anywhere in the British Atlantic world. Such adoption was not dependent upon the authority of formal medicine, but rather upon everyday epistemology. Inoculation became accepted as local knowledge because ordinary New Yorkers integrated it imaginatively into common ideas about the body and disease, reconceptualized its theological meaning, and incorporated it into familiar social relations of healing.
在殖民地时期的纽约，人们像英属大西洋世界其他任何地方的人一样迅速且全面地采用了天花接种法。这种采用并非依赖于正规医学的权威，而是基于日常的认识论。接种法作为一种地方知识被人们接受，因为普通纽约人富有想象力地将其融入关于身体和疾病的普遍观念中，重新构想了它的神学意义，并将其纳入熟悉的治疗社会关系之中。
