Germs at Bay
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Germs at Bay

Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine

  1. 520 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Germs at Bay

Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine

About this book

Examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and 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, 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 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 helps readers internalize the lessons learned from the pandemic. Few titles provide 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.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781440878336
eBook ISBN
9798216089803
Edition
1
Topic
Medicina
Subtopic
Historia de Norteamérica

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: The Quarantine Grab Bag
  9. Chapter 2: Quarantine through the Generations: Five Stages of Practice
  10. Chapter 3: Quarantine in the Colony
  11. Chapter 4: The Inoculation Controversy
  12. Chapter 5: Branding the Outcasts: Warning Out and Red Flags
  13. Chapter 6: Large-Scale Sequestration
  14. Chapter 7: The Revolutionary War and Its Aftermath: A New Perspective
  15. Chapter 8: Yellow Fever and the Emergence of Boards of Health
  16. Chapter 9: Boston Board of Health
  17. Chapter 10: Vaccination
  18. Chapter 11: Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1819 and the Excesses of Quarantine
  19. Chapter 12: Miasma Theory, Maritime Commerce, and Quarantine Restraints
  20. Chapter 13: Deer Island Quarantine Station
  21. Chapter 14: Cholera Contagion and the Resurrection of Quarantine
  22. Chapter 15: Gallop’s Island
  23. Chapter 16: The Evolution of the Cowpox Vaccine
  24. Chapter 17: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1872
  25. Chapter 18: Germ Theory Reframes Quarantine
  26. Chapter 19: Federal Solutions to Quarantine
  27. Chapter 20: Boston’s Last Epidemics
  28. Chapter 21: The End of Boston’s Maritime Quarantine Department
  29. Chapter 22: Quarantine under U.S. Public Health Service
  30. Chapter 23: Redefining Quarantine for the Twenty-First Century
  31. Appendix A: Chronology of Key American Quarantine Events, 1647–2020
  32. Appendix B: Chronology of Nineteenth-Century Boston Quarantine Ordinances, 1822–1873
  33. Appendix C: History of Boston’s Port Physicians, 1779–1915
  34. Appendix D: Quarantine Decision Tree
  35. Glossary
  36. About Sources
  37. Notes
  38. Index
  39. About the Author