Pox : an American history / Michael Willrich.
2011
RA644.S6 W55 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Pox : an American history / Michael Willrich.
Author
ISBN
9781594202865
1594202869
1594202869
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
RA644.S6 W55 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.5/210973
Summary
Chronicles how America's Progressive Era war on smallpox sparked one of the twentieth century's leading civil liberties battles, describing the views and tactics of anti-vaccine advocates who feared an increasingly large government.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Penguin history of American life.
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Table of Contents
Beginnings
The mild type
Wherever Wertenbaker went
War is health
The stable and the laboratory
The politics of tight spaces
The antivaccinationists
Speaking law to power.
The mild type
Wherever Wertenbaker went
War is health
The stable and the laboratory
The politics of tight spaces
The antivaccinationists
Speaking law to power.