American contagions : epidemics and the law from smallpox to COVID-19 /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Witt, John Fabian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Series:Business book summary
Subjects:
Epidemics > United States > History.
Public health laws > United States.
COVID-19 (Disease) > Law and legislation > United States.
Communicable diseases > United States.
Coronavirus
Communicable Diseases
Epidemics > history
Public Health > legislation & jurisprudence
Maladies infectieuses > États-Unis.
COVID-19 > États-Unis.
Maladies infectieuses.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Communicable diseases
COVID-19 (Disease)
Epidemics
Public health laws
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The sanitationist state
  • Quarantinism in America
  • Civil liberties in an epidemic?
  • New sanitationisms / new quarantinisms
  • Masked faces toward the past
  • Afterword: Viral protests.

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