Pox : an American history / Michael Willrich.
By: Willrich, Michael.
Material type: TextSeries: Penguin history of American life: Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2011Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781594202865; 1594202869.Subject(s): Smallpox -- Epidemiology -- United States | Smallpox -- History -- United States | Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Epidemics -- United StatesDDC classification: 614.5/210973Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 614.521 W685 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003723319 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beginnings -- The mild type -- Wherever Wertenbaker went -- War is health -- The stable and the laboratory -- The politics of tight spaces -- The antivaccinationists -- Speaking law to power.
Chronicles how America's Progressive Era war on smallpox sparked one of the twentieth century's leading civil liberties battles, describing the views and tactics of anti-vaccine advocates who feared an increasingly large government.
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