Diseased States: Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States

By: McCoy, Charles Allan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625345062
• ISBN13: 9781625345066
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"