Public Health Law and Ethics: A ReaderLawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin University of California Press, 2002 - 523 pages This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection encourages debate and discourse about how courts, scholars, and policy makers respond to the salient legal and ethical dilemmas. The excerpts and commentaries in the reader analyze the legal and constitutional foundations of public health, juxtaposing them with the emerging importance of public health ethics and human rights. The book offers a systematic account of public health law, ethics, and human rights in promoting the common good. Gostin provides thoughtful commentary on the field of public health and carefully explains the meaning and importance of each selection. Scholars, legislators, and public health professionals, as well as faculty and students in schools of law, public health, medicine, nursing, government, and health administration, will benefit from the contemporary case studies covering a wide range of topics from bioterrorism to public health genetics. |
Contents
Public Health Law Ethics and Human Rights Mapping the Issues | xxvii |
FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS | 15 |
Public Health The PopulationBased Perspective | 17 |
Public Health Ethics The Communitarian Tradition | 61 |
Human Rights and Public Health | 89 |
Reasoning in Public Health Philosophy Risk and Cost | 121 |
THE LAW AND THE PUBLICS HEALTH | 153 |
Public Health Duties and Powers | 155 |
Surveillance and Public Health Research Privacy and the Right to Know | 289 |
Health Promotion Education Persuasion and Free Expression | 329 |
Biological Interventions to Control Infectious Disease Immunization Screening and Treatment | 371 |
Restrictions of the Person Civil Confinement and Criminal Punishment | 409 |
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH | 439 |
Vision and Challenges Case Studies on Emerging Infections Bioterrorism and Public Health Genetics | 441 |
Bibliography | 481 |
Table of Cases | 503 |
Public Health and the Protection of Individual Rights | 197 |
Public Health Regulation of Property and the Professions | 223 |
Tort Litigation for the Publics Health | 259 |
TENSIONS AND RECURRING THEMES | 287 |
Index | 507 |
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