Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (California, Milbank Books on Health and the Public, 4)

✍ Scribed by Lawrence O. Gostin

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 557
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Illustrations......Page 12
List of Tables......Page 14
A READER IN PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS: THE WEB SITE......Page 15
Conventions Used in This Book......Page 16
Foreword......Page 18
Preface......Page 20
1. Public Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights......Page 34
Part One: Foundations of Public Health Law and Ethics......Page 54
2. Public Health: The Population-Based Perspective......Page 56
3. Public Health Ethics: The Communitarian Tradition......Page 100
4. Human Rights and Public Health......Page 128
5. Reasoning in Public Health: Philosophy, Risk, and Cost......Page 160
Part Two: The Law and the Public’s Health......Page 192
6. Public Health Duties and Powers......Page 194
7. Public Health and the Protection of Individual Rights......Page 236
8. Public Health Regulation of Property and the Professions......Page 262
9. Tort Litigation for the Public’s Health......Page 298
Part Three: Tensions and Recurring Themes......Page 326
10. Surveillance and Public Health Research: Privacy and the “Right to Know”......Page 328
11. Health Promotion Education, Persuasion, and Free Expression......Page 368
12. Biological Interventions to Control Infectious Disease: Immunization, Screening, and Treatment......Page 410
13. Restrictions of the Person: Civil Confinement and Criminal Punishment......Page 448
Part Four: The Future of Public Health......Page 478
14. Vision and Challenges Case Studies on Emerging Infections, Bioterrorism, and Public Health Genetics......Page 480
Bibliography......Page 520
Table of Cases......Page 542
Index......Page 546
About the Author......Page 556