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(0)John Fabian Witt
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
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From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that throughout American history legal approaches to public health have been liberal for some communities...
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Series
Publisher
Cali eLangdell Press
Pub. Date
[2016]-
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English
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"This is the second edition of Torts: Cases, Principles, and Institutions, a casebook for a one-semester torts course that carves out a distinctive niche in the field by focusing on the institutions and sociology of American tort law. The book retains many of the familiar features of the traditional casebook, including many of the classic cases. Like the best casebooks, it seeks to survey the theoretical principles underlying those cases. But it aims...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This engaging citizen's guide to the significance of contagion for American democracy in the past, present, and future focuses on the laws that have been central to this story. Outlining the shockingly mixed traditions that have mandated decent care for the elite while displaying a neglect and contempt toward the health of the disadvantaged, this timely book provides historical perspective and relevant information to help us shape a more just and...
