Pox
Subtitle: an American history
By: Michael Willrich
Series: The Penguin history of American life; Penguin history of American life
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781594202865
Subjects: Epidemiology; History, 19th Century; Disease Outbreaks; Epidemics; History; Smallpox; History, 20th Century
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: The mild type; title: Wherever Wertenbaker went; title: War is health; title: The stable and the laboratory; title: The politics of tight spaces; title: The antivaccinationists; title: Speaking law to power.