American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19 by John Fabian Witt

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

John Fabian Witt with John Fabian Witt (Narrator)

2 hours, 56 minutes first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arrives at is devastating. --Jennifer Szalai, The New...

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