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Joseph Hiam Levy (1838 – 1913) was an English author and economist. He was educated at the City of London School and joined the Civil Service. He later became a lecturer in economics at Birkbeck College and an important figure in the Personal Rights Association.

Levy also wrote an introduction to the English translation of Yves Guyot's 1893 work, The Tyranny of Socialism.

Levy was an anti-vaccinationist as he believed it violated personal rights. He described compulsory vaccination as a "gross and cruel invasion of personal liberty".^[1] Levy's anti-vaccination book, The Bird that Laid the Vaccination Egg, published in 1892 was heavily criticized in medical journals as non-scientific.^[2]^[3]

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A Symposium on Value. Edited by J. H. Levy, and consisting of papers by E. B. Bax, W. Donisthorpe 1895
The Bird that Laid the Vaccination Egg: An Excursus on Scientific Authority. 1892
State Vaccination: With Special Reference to Some Principles of Ancient Judaism. 1897
Book-Plate and Verses. (The Lighthouse. Reprinted from the “Westminster Review.”). 1910
The Economics of Labour Remuneration. A lecture.
The Enfranchisement of Women: A Speech, etc. 1892
The Fall of Man. (Verses with notes. Reprinted from the Westminster Review 1899)
The Fiscal Question in Great Britain. Introduced by J. H. Levy. 1904
Freedom the Fundamental Condition of Morality. A paper read at the Conference of the British, Con 1896
The God of Israel. A paper read before the International Positivist Congress at Naples, 27 April 1908
Individualism and the Land Question: A Discussion. 1912
The Psychology of Pasteurism. A paper planned to be read at Cambridge at the end of 1913 but not delivered due to the author's death.

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^ Durbach, Nadja. (2005). Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907. Duke University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-8223-3423-1
^ "The Bird that Laid the Vaccination Egg". The Lancet. 1: 1426–1427. 1892.
^ "Recent Literature". The New England Journal of Medicine. 127: 246. 1892.

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Works by Joseph Hiam Levy at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Joseph Hiam Levy at Internet Archive
Works by Joseph Hiam Levy at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

[1] Durbach, Nadja. (2005). Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907. Duke University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-8223-3423-1

[2] "The Bird that Laid the Vaccination Egg". The Lancet. 1: 1426–1427. 1892.

[3] "Recent Literature". The New England Journal of Medicine. 127: 246. 1892.

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