Pox

Author: Michael Willrich
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B007HW0GC6
Category: Medical

Pox: An American History (Penguin History of American Life)

The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century. Download Pox medical books for free.


At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern tobacco plantations to the dense immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the nascent American empire. In Pox, award-winning historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation's continentwide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the twentieth century.

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