Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Willrich, Michael |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Date: | 3/27/2012 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The untold story of how America’s progressive-era war onsmallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of thetwentieth century.
At the turn of the last century, a smallpox epidemic swept theUnited States from coast to coast. In this gripping account, award- winning historian Michael Willrich chronicles the government’s fightagainst the outbreak and the ensuing clash of modern medicine, civilliberties, and state power. Pox introduces readers to memorablecharacters on both sides of the debate-from the doctors and club- wielding police charged with enforcing the law to vaccinate everycitizen to the anti-vaccinationists, who stood up for their individualfreedoms but were often dismissed as misguided cranks. Riveting andthoroughly researched, Pox delivers a masterful examination ofprogressive-era history that resonates powerfully today.
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