LEADER 03659nam 2200541 450 001 9910794332503321 005 20231218005257.0 010 $a0-300-25777-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300257779 035 $a(CKB)4100000011413698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6331715 035 $a(DE-B1597)571397 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300257779 035 $a(OCoLC)1202623651 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011413698 100 $a20210121d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican contagions $eepidemics and the law from smallpox to covid-19 /$fJohn Fabian Witt 210 1$aUnited States of America :$cYale University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (185 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-25727-9 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1: The Sanitationist State --$tChapter 2: Quarantinism in America --$tChapter 3: Civil Liberties in an Epidemic? --$tChapter 4: New Sanitationisms / New Quarantinisms --$tChapter 5: Masked Faces toward the Past --$tAfterword: Viral Protests --$tNotes --$tSuggested Reading --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aA concise history of how American law has shaped?and been shaped by?the experience of contagion?Contrarians and the civic-minded alike will find Witt?s legal survey a fascinating resource??Kirkus, starred review ?Professor Witt?s book is an original and thoughtful contribution to the interdisciplinary study of disease and American law. Although he covers the broad sweep of the American experience of epidemics from yellow fever to COVID-19, he is especially timely in his exploration of the legal background to the current disaster of the American response to the coronavirus. A thought-provoking, readable, and important work.? - Frank Snowden, author of Epidemics and Society   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? 606 $aCOVID-19 (Disease)$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aEpidemics$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aQuarantine$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aCivil rights$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aCOVID-19 (Disease)$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aEpidemics$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aQuarantine$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aCivil rights 676 $a344.73043 700 $aWitt$b John Fabian$0790556 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794332503321 996 $aAmerican contagions$93791033 997 $aUNINA