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Under Quarantineis the riveting story of Shaar Ha'aliya,acentral immigrant processing campopenedshortly after Israel became an independent state. This historicgateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversialbarbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended thisimposing barrier as a necessary quarantine measure - even as detained immigrants regularly defied itby crawling out of the camp and returningat will.Focusing on the conflicts and complicationssurrounding the medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life.Evocative and bold,Under Quarantineshows that we cannot fully understand Israel until we understand Shaar Ha'aliya.The gate of arrival for nearly half a million immigrants - a space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and welcoming - here was the country's crucible.

Quarantine --- Public health --- Israel --- Medical --- Social science

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This book examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and explores the political, economic, immigration, and public health considerations that have prompted success or failure within the evolving role of public health. The novel strain of coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and became a worldwide pandemic in 2020 is only one of more than 87 new or emerging pathogens discovered since 1980 that have posed a risk to public health. While many may consider quarantine an antiquated practice, in reality it is often one of the only defenses against new and dangerous communicable diseases. Tracing the United States' quarantine practices through the colonial, postcolonial, and modern eras, Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine provides an eye-opening look at how quarantine has worked despite routine dismissal of its value. This book is for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of controlling the spread of COVID-19 and will help readers internalize the lessons that may be learned from the pandemic. No other title provides this level of primary source data on the United States' long reliance on quarantine practices and the political, social, and economic factors that have influenced them.

Politics & International Relations. --- Quarantine --- Public health --- History.

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An international consensus policy to prevent the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies exists and is maintained by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) of the International Council for Science, which is consultative to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Currently, COSPAR's planetary protection policy does not specify the status of sample-return missions from Phobos or Deimos, the moons of Mars. Although the moons themselves are not considered potential habitats for life or of intrinsic relevance to prebiotic chemical evolution, recent studies indicate that a significant amount of material recently ejected from Mars could be present on the surface of Phobos and, to a lesser extent, Deimos. This report reviews recent theoretical, experimental, and modeling research on the environments and physical conditions encountered by Mars ejecta during certain processes. It recommends whether missions returning samples from Phobos and/or Deimos should be classified as "restricted" or "unrestricted" Earth return in the framework of the planetary protection policy maintained by COSPAR. This report also considers the specific ways the classification of sample return from Deimos is a different case than sample return from Phobos. --

Planetary quarantine. --- Space flight to Mars. --- Mars (Planet) --- Satellites.

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Communicable Disease Control. --- Patient Isolation --- Quarantine --- Quarantine. --- methods. --- University of Nebraska Medical Center. --- Lazarettos --- Communicable diseases --- Public health --- Prevention --- University of Nebraska (Central administration). --- Nebraska. --- UNMC

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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 from yellow fever to COVID-19, he is especially timely in his exploration of the legal background to the current disaster of the American response to the coronavirus. A thought-provoking, readable, and important work.” - Frank Snowden, author of Epidemics and Society   From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that throughout American history legal approaches to public health have been liberal for some communities and authoritarian for others, Witt shows us how history’s answers to the major questions brought up by previous epidemics help shape our answers today: What is the relationship between individual liberty and the common good? What is the role of the federal government, and what is the role of the states? Will long-standing traditions of government and law give way to the social imperatives of an epidemic? Will we let the inequities of our mixed tradition continue?

COVID-19 (Disease) --- Epidemics --- Quarantine --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- United States.