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American Contagions : Epidemics And The Law From Smallpox To Covid-19

American Contagions : Epidemics And The Law From Smallpox To Covid-19

Witt, John Fabian, author.
EAudiobook 2020

" From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that throughout American history legal approaches to public health have been liberal for some commu...

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COVID-19 (Disease) United States
Communicable diseases United States
Epidemics United States History
Public health laws United States
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ISBN:
9781666104936
Description:
1 audio file : digital
digital
digital stereo
audio file
Other Title:
Epidemics and the law from smallpox to COVID-19
Notes:
Electronic audio file
Read by Mike Chamberlain
Electronic reproduction. Old Saybrook Tantor Media, Inc. 2021 Available via World Wide Web
Contents:
Introduction
The sanitationist state
Quarantinism in America
Civil liberties in an epidemic?
New sanitionisms / new quarantinisms
Masked faces toward the past
Afterword: Viral protests
Control Number:
3050673
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