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Plagues In The Nation
How Epidemics Shaped America
Polly J. Price, 2022, Bvt Lib 614.49 PRI
Professor of law and global health at Emory University
- 25 minute walk from CDC headquarters
- x preface: Emory University treated the first American health workers evacuated from West Africa in spite of bomb threats
- panic and squabbles, ineffective political response, conflicts among citizens
- xiii WHO Pandemic: "an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a very large number of people."
- Epidemic, Websters: "an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time"
- CDC: "Epidemic refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in that area."
- CDC: "Outbreat carries the same definition of epidemic, but is often used for a more limited geographic area."
001 1883 smallpox quarantine hospital ("pesthouse"), potter's field
- 003 early US: Town leaders, justices of the peace, and other government officials had nearly unlimited power to stop an epidemic, threatened or real, unwilling to give federal government means to interfere with local liberties.
- 004 Prevailing judicial attitude = ancient maxim "Salus populi suprema lex", the health of the people shall be the supreme law.