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This book examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and explores the political, economic, immigration, and public health considerations that have prompted success or failure within the evolving role of public health.
The novel strain of coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and became a worldwide pandemic in 2020 is only one of more than 87 new or emerging pathogens discovered since 1980 that have posed a risk to public health. While many may consider quarantine an antiquated practice, in reality it is often one of the only defenses against new and dangerous communicable diseases. Tracing the United States' quarantine practices through the colonial, postcolonial, and modern eras,
Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine provides an eye-opening look at how quarantine has worked despite routine dismissal of its value.
This book is for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of controlling the spread of COVID-19 and will help readers internalize the lessons that may be learned from the pandemic. No other title provides this level of primary source data on the United States' long reliance on quarantine practices and the political, social, and economic factors that have influenced them.
Table des matières
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 The Quarantine Grab Bag
Chapter 2 Quarantine through the Generations: Five Stages of Practice
Chapter 3 Quarantine in the Colony
Chapter 4 The Inoculation Controversy
Chapter 5 Branding the Outcasts: Warning Out and Red Flags
Chapter 6 Large-Scale Sequestration
Chapter 7 The Revolutionary War and Its Aftermath: A New Perspective
Chapter 8 Yellow Fever and the Emergence of Boards of Health
Chapter 9 Boston Board of Health
Chapter 10 Vaccination
Chapter 11 Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1819 and the Excesses of Quarantine
Chapter 12 Miasma Theory, Maritime Commerce, and Quarantine Restraints
Chapter 13 Deer Island Quarantine Station
Chapter 14 Cholera Contagion and the Resurrection of Quarantine
Chapter 15 Gallop's Island
Chapter 16 The Evolution of the Cowpox Vaccine
Chapter 17 The Smallpox Epidemic of 1872
Chapter 18 Germ Theory Reframes Quarantine
Chapter 19 Federal Solutions to Quarantine
Chapter 20 Boston's Last Epidemics
Chapter 21 The End of Boston's Maritime Quarantine Department
Chapter 22 Quarantine under U.S. Public Health Service
Chapter 23 Redefining Quarantine for the Twenty-First Century
Appendix A: Chronology of Key American Quarantine Events, 1647-2020Appendix B: Chronology of Nineteenth-Century Boston Quarantine Ordinances, 1822-1873Appendix C: History of Boston's Port Physicians, 1779-1915Appendix D: Quarantine Decision TreeGlossaryAbout SourcesNotesIndex
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Charles Vidich
