000945706 000__ 03000cam\a2200433\i\4500 000945706 001__ 945706 000945706 005__ 20240201105731.0 000945706 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000945706 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000945706 008__ 200912s2020\\\\ctu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000945706 020__ $$a0300257775$$q(electronic book) 000945706 020__ $$a9780300257779$$q(electronic book) 000945706 035__ $$a(OCoLC)on1194530478 000945706 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1194530478 000945706 040__ $$aEBLCP$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cEBLCP$$dJSTOR$$dYDXIT$$dEBLCP$$dTEFOD$$dN$T$$dYDX$$dOCLCF$$dRCJ$$dK6U$$dOCLCO$$dWAU 000945706 049__ $$aISEA 000945706 050_4 $$aKF3800$$b.W58 2020 000945706 08204 $$a344.7304/3$$223 000945706 1001_ $$aWitt, John Fabian,$$eauthor. 000945706 24510 $$aAmerican contagions :$$bepidemics and the law from smallpox to COVID-19 /$$cJohn Fabian Witt. 000945706 264_1 $$aNew Haven :$$bYale University Press,$$c[2020] 000945706 300__ $$a1 online resource (174 pages) 000945706 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000945706 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000945706 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000945706 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000945706 50500 $$gIntroduction --$$tThe sanitationist state --$$tQuarantinism in America --$$tCivil liberties in an epidemic? --$$tNew sanitionisms/new quarantinisms --$$tMasked faces toward the past --$$gAfterword:$$tViral protests. 000945706 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000945706 520__ $$aA concise history of how American law has shaped--and been shaped by--the experience of contagion. 000945706 520__ $$a" From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that throughout American history legal approaches to public health have been liberal for some communities and authoritarian for others, Witt shows us how history's answers to the major questions brought up by previous epidemics help shape our answers today: What is the relationship between individual liberty and the common good? What is the role of the federal government, and what is the role of the states? Will long-standing traditions of government and law give way to the social imperatives of an epidemic? Will we let the inequities of our mixed tradition continue?"--Amazon. 000945706 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000945706 650_0 $$aPublic health laws$$zUnited States. 000945706 650_0 $$aCommunicable diseases$$zUnited States. 000945706 650_0 $$aEpidemics$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000945706 650_0 $$aCOVID-19 (Disease)$$zUnited States. 000945706 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aWitt, John Fabian.$$tAmerican contagions.$$dNew Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2020]$$z0300257279$$w(DLC) 2020940896$$w(OCoLC)1162881542 000945706 85280 $$bebk$$heBooks on EBSCOhost 000945706 85640 $$3eBooks on EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2593797$$zOnline Access 000945706 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:945706$$pGLOBAL_SET 000945706 980__ $$aEBOOK 000945706 980__ $$aBIB 000945706 982__ $$aEbook 000945706 983__ $$aOnline