The legal history of epidemics shows that, throughout American history, public health laws have been liberal for some communities and authoritarian for others. Epidemics prompt us to make choices about our basic values and our laws, and history helps shape our answers to those questions today.
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American Contagions
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John Fabian Witt
John Fabian Witt is the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, a professor in the Yale history department, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellow. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, the Harvard Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, among other publications. Witt is the author of The Accidental Republic, which was awarded book prizes by the Harvard Press Board of Syndics, the American Society for Legal History, and the Law and Society Association.
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