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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Witt, John Fabian, author.     Subjects     Public health laws -- United States.     Communicable diseases -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.     Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Witt, John Fabian, author.       by title:      American contagions ...         MARC Display

American contagions : epidemics and the law from smallpox to COVID-19 / John Fabian Witt. by Witt, John Fabian, author. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021] Subjects Public health laws -- United States.   Communicable diseases -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.   Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 21st century. ISBN:  9780300261516 (paperback) : 0300261519 (paperback) Description:  174 pages ; 21 cm Requests:  0 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?   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 344.04369 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 344.04369 Witt Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 344.04369 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 344.04369 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 344.04369 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Naalehu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 344.04369 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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