cam a22 4 4500 599442395 CHVBK 20201010032655.0 190930s2020 mau b||| 001 0 eng| 2019044476 978-1-62534-506-6 hardcover 1-62534-506-2 978-1-62534-507-3 paperback 1-62534-507-0 978-1-61376-754-2 ebook 978-1-61376-755-9 ebook (OCoLC)1122685228 (IDSBB)007213191 DNLM/DLC ger SzZuIDS NEBIS UZH-HBZ-M SzZuIDS BS/BE B583 rda RA649 WA 11.1 614.4/9 23 McCoy Charles Allan Verfasser aut Diseased states epidemic control in Britain and the United States Charles Allan McCoy Amherst University of Massachusetts Press [2020] 223 Seiten Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Includes bibliographical references and index "Outbreaks of Ebola, SARS, MERS, and pandemic influenza are brutal reminders of the dangers of infectious disease. Comparing the development of disease control in Britain and the United States, from the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia to the H1N1 panics of more recent times, Diseased States provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century. To understand why these two nations have handled contemporary disease threats in such different ways, Charles Allan McCoy examines when and how disease control measures were adopted in each country from the nineteenth century onward, which medical theory of disease was dominant at the time, and where disease control was located within the state apparatus. Particular starting conditions put Britain and the United States on distinct trajectories of institutionalization that led to their respective systems of disease control. As McCoy shows, even the seemingly objective matter of contagion is deeply enmeshed in social and political realities, and by developing unique systems of biopower to control the spread of disease, Britain and the United States have established different approaches of exerting political control over citizens' lives and bodies"-- Communicable Disease Control history (DNLM)D003140Q000266 History, Modern 1601- (DNLM)D049711 Epidemics prevention & control (DNLM)D058872Q000517 Health Policy history (DNLM)D006291Q000266 United States (DNLM)D014481 United Kingdom (DNLM)D006113 BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 IDSBB A100 A100 100FM UBH IDSBB B583 B583 583LS IMG WA 11 FA1 M478 NELB5832010 IDSBB 100 1- McCoy Charles Allan Verfasser aut