John Fabian Witt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagion
"Contrarians and the civic-minded alike will find Witt's legal survey a fascinating resource"—Kirkus, starred review
"Professor Witt's book is an original and thoughtful contribution to the interdisciplinary study of disease and American law. Although he covers the broad sweep of the American experience of epidemics...Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"By one of the nation's foremost legal historians, a groundbreaking history of the pioneering American role in establishing the modern laws of war.In the fateful closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, Abraham Lincoln's top military advisors commissioned a code of rules to govern the armies of the United States in a newly intensified war effort. The code Lincoln issued the next spring helped shape the remaining two years of Civil...