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Author Witt, John Fabian, auhor.

Title American contagions : epidemics and the law from smallpox to COVID-19 / John Fabian Witt.

Publication Info. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2020]
©2020

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  344.7304 WIT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  344.7304 WITT    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  344.043 WIT    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  344.043 WITT    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  344.043 WITT    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  344.043 WITT    Check Shelf
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Description 174 pages : 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-163) and index.
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.
Summary " 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 communities and authoritarian for others, Witt shows us how history's answers to the major questions brought up by previous epidemics help shape our answers today: What is the relationship between individual liberty and the common good? What is the role of the federal government, and what is the role of the states? Will long-standing traditions of government and law give way to the social imperatives of an epidemic? Will we let the inequities of our mixed tradition continue?"--Amazon.
Subject COVID-19 (Disease) -- United States.
Communicable diseases -- United States.
Epidemics -- United States -- History.
Public health laws -- United States.
Communicable diseases. (OCoLC)fst00869883
COVID-19 (Disease) (OCoLC)fst01984643
Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
Public health laws. (OCoLC)fst01082364
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Epidemics and the law from smallpox to COVID-19
ISBN 0300257279
9780300257274
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