Germs at Bay

Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine

AvCharles Vidich

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-27
Mått:152 x 232 x 30 mm
Vikt:780 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:520
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798765128589

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Charles Vidich is a consultant and adviser on public health and bioterrorism issues and was appointed a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, working for 10 years on national quarantine policy.

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Germs at Bay is a great book if you are interested in the how and why of quarantines like those at Boston Harbor or New York's Ellis Island, or the current recommendations to keep COVID [from] further spread.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 The Quarantine Grab BagChapter 2 Quarantine through the Generations: Five Stages of PracticeChapter 3 Quarantine in the ColonyChapter 4 The Inoculation ControversyChapter 5 Branding the Outcasts: Warning Out and Red FlagsChapter 6 Large-Scale SequestrationChapter 7 The Revolutionary War and Its Aftermath: A New PerspectiveChapter 8 Yellow Fever and the Emergence of Boards of HealthChapter 9 Boston Board of HealthChapter 10 VaccinationChapter 11 Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1819 and the Excesses of QuarantineChapter 12 Miasma Theory, Maritime Commerce, and Quarantine RestraintsChapter 13 Deer Island Quarantine StationChapter 14 Cholera Contagion and the Resurrection of QuarantineChapter 15 Gallop's IslandChapter 16 The Evolution of the Cowpox VaccineChapter 17 The Smallpox Epidemic of 1872Chapter 18 Germ Theory Reframes QuarantineChapter 19 Federal Solutions to QuarantineChapter 20 Boston's Last EpidemicsChapter 21 The End of Boston's Maritime Quarantine DepartmentChapter 22 Quarantine under U.S. Public Health ServiceChapter 23 Redefining Quarantine for the Twenty-First CenturyAppendix 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