Pox : an American history / Michael Willrich.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin history of American lifePublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2011.Description: 422 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1594202869 : HRD
  • 9781594202865
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.5/210973 22
LOC classification:
  • RA644.S6 W55 2011
NLM classification:
  • WC 590
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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