Title Germs at bay : politics, public health, and American quarantine / Charles Vidich

Published Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 500 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. The quarantine grab bag -- 2. Quarantine through the generations : five stages of practice -- 3. Quarantine in the colony -- 4. The inoculation controversy -- 5. Branding the outcasts : warning out and red flags -- 6. Large-scale sequestration -- 7. The Revolutionary War and its aftermath : a new perspective -- 8. Yellow fever and the emergence of boards of health -- 9. Boston Board of Health -- 10. Vaccination -- 11. Yellow fever outbreak of 1819 and the excesses of quarantine -- 12. Miasma theory, maritime commerce, and quarantine restraints -- 13. Deer Island Quarantine Station -- 14. Cholera contagion and the resurrection of quarantine -- 15. Gallop's Island -- 16. The evolution of the cowpox vaccine -- 17. The smallpox epidemic of 1872 -- 18. Germ theory reframes quarantine -- 19. Federal solutions to quarantine -- 20. Boston's last epidemics -- 21. The end of Boston's Maritime Quarantine Department -- 22. Quarantine under U.S. Public Health Service -- 23. Redefining quarantine for the twenty-first century -- Appendix A. Chronology of key American quarantine events, 1647-2020 -- Appendix B. Chronology of nineteenth-century Boston quarantine ordinances, 1822-1873 -- Appendix C. History of Boston's Port physicians, 1779-1915 -- Appendix D. Quarantine decision tree -- Glossary Summary "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 roles of public health"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2021) Subject Quarantine -- United States -- History Public health -- United States. Public health Quarantine Politics & government. Medical -- Public Health. History -- United States -- General. Social Science -- Disease & Health Issues. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020034373 ISBN 144087834X 9781440878343 9798216089803

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