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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 PDF

185 Pages·2020·6.856 MB·English
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AMERICAN CONTAGIONS Witt_American_txt_toprint.indd 1 8/13/20 9:29 AM This page intentionally left blank Witt_American_txt_toprint.indd 2 8/13/20 9:29 AM AMERICAN CONTAGIONS Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 John Fabian Witt New HaveN & LoNdoN Witt_American_txt_toprint.indd 3 8/13/20 9:29 AM Published with assistance from the income of the Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund. Copyright © 2020 by John Fabian Witt. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e-mail [email protected] (U.S. office) or [email protected] (U.K. office). Designed by Dustin Kilgore. Set in Yale type by Karen Stickler. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020940896 ISBN 978-0-300-25727-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Witt_American_txt_toprint.indd 4 8/13/20 9:29 AM For Gus and Teddy, my heroic contagion-era companions Witt_American_txt_toprint.indd 5 8/13/20 9:29 AM This page intentionally left blank Witt_American_txt_toprint.indd 2 8/13/20 9:29 AM CONTENTS Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Sanitationist State 13 Chapter 2: Quarantinism in America 35 Chapter 3: Civil Liberties in an Epidemic? 61 Chapter 4: New Sanitationisms / New Quarantinisms 85 Chapter 5: Masked Faces toward the Past 107 Afterword: Viral Protests 139 Notes 143 Suggested Reading 161 Acknowledgments 165 Index 167 Witt_American_txt_toprint.indd 7 8/13/20 9:29 AM This page intentionally left blank Witt_American_txt_toprint.indd 2 8/13/20 9:29 AM AMERICAN CONTAGIONS Witt_American_txt_toprint.indd 9 8/13/20 9:29 AM

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