{"title":"Walter Hadwen","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-case-against-vaccination-1896-by-walter-hadwen-paperback","title":"The Case Against Vaccination (1896) by Walter Hadwen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter Robert Hadwen MD MRCS MRCP (3 August 1854, Woolwich - 27 December 1932) was a Gloucester GP and pharmaceutical chemist, president of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), and an anti-vaccination campaigner known for his denial of the germ theory of disease.Hadwen began his career as a pharmacist in Clapham then Somerset, then subsequently trained as a doctor at Bristol University. After qualifying, he moved to Gloucester in 1896. Hadwen was recruited as a member of BUAV by its founder and then president Frances Power Cobbe who hired a private investigator to assess his credentials (he was a vegetarian and total abstainer, had a reputation as a \"firebrand\" orator and was held in \"high local esteem\"). She subsequently selected him as her successor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68215551852767,"sku":"9781540727930","price":10.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/A_okVvKBKC9781540727930.webp?v=1792572702"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/walter-hadwen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}