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![American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19 by John Fabian Witt](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBOFp4ekE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7d8268e485b5fd77530994d0d5a88f5909db2ae5/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/American%20Contagions-%20Epidemics%20and%20the%20Law%20from%20Smallpox%20to%20Covid-19.jpg)
184 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300257274
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 27 October 2020
Description
A concise history of how American law has shaped--and been shaped by--the experience of contagion, "taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to Covid-19. . . . Witt constructs his argument carefully, rarely allowing himself a rhetoric...
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184 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300257274
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 27 October 2020
Description
A concise history of how American law has shaped--and been shaped by--the experience of contagion, "taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to Covid-19. . . . Witt constructs his argument carefully, rarely allowing himself a rhetoric...