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GERMS AT BAY: POLITICS PUBLIC HEALTH AND AM QUARANTINE

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<P>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, in reality 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, this book provides an eye-opening look at how quarantine has worked despite routine dismissal of its value. The book is for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of controlling the spread of COVID-19 and will help readers internalize the lessons that may be learned from the pandemic. No other title provides the 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.</P>

Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
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&#x2019;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&#x2019;s Last Epidemics.
21: The End of Boston&#x2019;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&#x2013;2020.
Appendix B: Chronology of Nineteenth-Century Boston Quarantine Ordinances, 1822&#x2013;1873.
Appendix C: History of Boston&#x2019;s Port Physicians, 1779&#x2013;1915.
Appendix D: Quarantine Decision Tree.
Glossary.
About Sources.
Notes.
Index.
About the Author.

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