Full Description
Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader, 3rd Edition probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisive selection of judicial opinions, scholarly articles, and government reports. Crafted to be accessible to students while thorough enough for use by practitioners, policy makers, scholars, and teachers alike, the reader can be used as a stand-alone resource or alongside the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, 3rd Edition. This updated edition reader includes new discussions of today's most pressing health threats, such as chronic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, biosecurity, opioid overdose, gun violence, and health disparities.
Contents
PART ONE. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS
1. Law and the Public's Health: Mapping the Terrain
2. Public Health Ethics: Science, Values, and the Regulation of Risk
PART TWO. LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
3. Public Health Powers and Duties
4. Public Health and the Protection of Individual Rights: Due Process, Equal Protection, and the First Amendment
5. Public Health Governance: Administrative Agencies and Local Governments
PART THREE. MODES OF LEGAL INTERVENTION
6. Direct Regulation for the Public's Health and Safety
7. Tort Liability as Indirect Regulation
8. Taxation, Spending, and the Social Safety Net
PART FOUR. PUBLIC HEALTH LAW IN CONTEXT
9. Surveillance and Public Health Research: Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality of Personal Health Information
10. Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
11. Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response
12. Noncommunicable Disease Prevention
13. Injury and Violence Prevention
14. Health Justice
About the Authors
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