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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

184 pages 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. . . . Witt constructs his argument carefully, rarely allowing himself a rhetoric...

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