Searching Eyes : Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, James Colgrove, Ronald Bayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairchild, Amy L., Author.

Bayer, Ronald, Author.

Colgrove, James, Author.

Series:

California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18.

California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public Health Practice--history--United States.

Privacy--United States.

Health Policy--history--United States.

Confidentiality--United States.

Population Surveillance--United States.

Privacy, Right of.

Public health surveillance.

Medical Subjects:

Public Health Practice--history--United States.

Privacy--United States.

Health Policy--history--United States.

Confidentiality--United States.

Population Surveillance--United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease to health authorities inevitably poses questions about the interplay between the imperative to control threats to the public's health and legal and ethical concerns about privacy. Authors Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove situate the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context and show how the changing meaning and significance of privacy have marked the politics and practice of surveillance since the end of the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Foreword

Preface: The Politics of Privacy, the Politics of Surveillance

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction Surveillance and the Landscape of Privacy in Twentieth-Century America

2. Opening Battles: Tuberculosis and the Foundations of Surveillance

3. Raising the Veil: Syphilis and Secrecy

4. The Right to Know: Detection, Reporting, and Prevention of Occupational Disease

5. The Right to Be Counted: Confronting the "Menace of Cancer"

6. Who Shall Count the Little Children? From "Crippled Kiddies" to Birth Defects

7. AIDS, Activism, and the Vicissitudes of Democratic Privacy

8. Counting All Kids: Immunization Registries and the Privacy of Parents and Children

9. Panoptic Visions and Stubborn Realities in a New Era of Privacy

Conclusion: An Enduring Tension

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-327) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612772283

9781282772281

1282772287

9780520941212

0520941217

9781435611481

1435611489

OCLC:

476111521