The Yellow Flag of Quarantine: An Analysis of the Historical and Prospective Impacts of Socio-Legal Controls Over Contagion

Under the ancient threat of morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases, human societies have responded for thousands of years by imposing social containment measures. Even before theorists and laymen recognized the existence of pathogenic organisms, or fully understood the principles of contag...

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Main Author: Okin, Peter Oliver
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2012
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4190
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5386&context=etd