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Populations, public health, and the law / Wendy E. Parmet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parmet, Wendy E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health laws--United States.
- Public health laws.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A population-based approach to legal analysis which claims that law should seek, among other things, to protect and promote public health.
- Contents:
- Public health and the population perspective
- Public health and American law
- Towards a population-based legal analysis : the Supreme Beef case
- Population health and federalism : whose job is it?
- Individual rights, population health, and due process
- A right to die? : further reflections on due process rights
- The First Amendment and the obesity epidemic
- A population-based health law
- Tort law : a population approach to private law
- Globalizing population-based legal analysis
- The future for population-based legal analysis
- Table of U.S. cases.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781589016057
- 158901605X
- 9781589016064
- 1589016068
- OCLC:
- 638859217
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