American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law From Smallpox to Covid-19 by John Fabian Witt

American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law From Smallpox to Covid-19

John Fabian Witt

174 pages first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

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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 histo...

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