Lawyer and amateur historian Michael Buckner uses the History, Law & Justice podcast to explore legal issues affecting governance, society and culture of the United States and other civilizations, past and present, using history as his guide. From Ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome to the present digital age, Michael enthusiastically uses past historical and cultural lessons to assist his understanding of the how’s and why’s of our modern society.
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Lawyer and amateur historian Michael Buckner uses the History, Law & Justice podcast to explore legal issues affecting governance, society and culture of the United States and other civilizations, past and present, using history as his guide. From Ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome to the present digital age, Michael enthusiastically uses past historical and cultural lessons to assist his understanding of the how’s and why’s of our modern society.
How Did the Federal, State and Local Governments Handle the First U.S. Epidemic?
History, Law & Justice
8 minutes 27 seconds
5 years ago
How Did the Federal, State and Local Governments Handle the First U.S. Epidemic?
Host and attorney Michael Buckner, using the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as a backdrop, investigates the public health roles of the federal, state and local governments in the first epidemic in the nation’s history: the 1793 yellow fever outbreak that affected the then-capital and largest city, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Citations: Simon Finger, Yellow Fever, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia; Sandy Hingston, 11 Things You Might Not Know About Philly’s 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic; Matthew Carey, A short account of the malignant fever; William Duffy, From Humors to Medical Science; John Harvey Powell, Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793; Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee to Attend to and Alleviate the Sufferings of the Afflicted with the Malignant Fever, 1794; Benjamin Rush, An Account of the Bilious remitting Yellow Fever as it appeared in Philadelphia, in the year 1793.
History, Law & Justice
Lawyer and amateur historian Michael Buckner uses the History, Law & Justice podcast to explore legal issues affecting governance, society and culture of the United States and other civilizations, past and present, using history as his guide. From Ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome to the present digital age, Michael enthusiastically uses past historical and cultural lessons to assist his understanding of the how’s and why’s of our modern society.
