Pox Audiobook by Michael Willrich
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Listen to full audiobook for free : https://audiobookzap.com/free Title: Pox Subtitle: An American History Categories: America, Contagious Disease, Disease, Health Author: Michael Willrich Narrator: K. Todd Freeman Publisher: Penguin Audio Release date: 04-01-2011 Language: English Summary: The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the 20th century. At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern tobacco plantations to the dense immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the nascent American empire. In Pox, award-winning historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation's continent-wide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the 20th century. At the dawn of the activist Progressive era and during a moment of great optimism about modern medicine, the government responded to the deadly epidemic by calling for universal compulsory vaccination. To enforce the law, public health authorities relied on quarantines, pesthouses, and "virus squads": corps of doctors and club-wielding police. #ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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