Polly J. Price

Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Sheds light on the US government's response to epidemics through history--with larger conclusions about COVID-19 and reforms needed before the next plague"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780807043493
• ISBN-10: 0807043494
• Artikelnr.: 62538510

Autorenporträt

Polly J. Price

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1
America’s First Plagues
2
Yellow Fever and the Shotgun Quarantine
3
Black Death on the West Coast
4
The 1918 Great Influenza
5
Confronting Tuberculosis
6
The Fight Against Polio
7
The AIDS Epidemic
8
Ebola in Dallas
9
A Coronavirus Pandemic
Epilogue: Law for the Next Pandemic
Acknowledgments
Notes
Image Credits
Index