Public Health Law : Power, Duty, Restraint / Lawrence O. Gostin, Lindsay F. Wiley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gostin, Lawrence O., Author.

Wiley, Lindsay F., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health laws--United States.

Public health laws.

Public health--Moral and ethical aspects.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (763 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lawrence O. Gostin's seminal Public Health Law is widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law at the turn of the twenty-first century. In this bold third edition, Gostin is joined by Lindsay F. Wiley to analyze major health threats of our time such as chronic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, bioterrorism, natural disasters, opioid overdose, and gun violence. The authors draw on constitutional law, administrative law, local government law, and tort law to develop their conception of law as a tool for protecting the public's health. The book creates an intellectual framework for modern public health law and supports that framework with illustrations of the scientific, political, and ethical issues involved. In proposing innovative solutions for the future of the public's health, Gostin and Wiley's essential study provides a blueprint for public and political debates to come. New issues covered in this edition: • Corporate personhood rights raised in response to regulations of tobacco, food and beverages, alcohol, firearms, prescription drugs, and marijuana. • Local government authority to protect the public's health. • Deregulation and harm reduction as modes of public health law intervention. • Taxation, spending, and alteration of the socioeconomic environment as modes of public health law intervention. • Access to health care as a strategy for protecting the public's health. • Taxation, spending, licensing, zoning, and shared-use strategies for chronic disease prevention. • The public health law perspective on violence and injury prevention. • Health justice as a framework for reducing health disparities and protecting the public's health.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations, Tables, and Boxes

Foreword

Preface to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE. A Theory and Definition of Public Health Law

CHAPTER TWO. Risk Regulation: A Systematic Evaluation

CHAPTER THREE. Public Health Law in the Constitutional Design: Public Health Powers and Duties

CHAPTER FOUR. Constitutional Limits on the Exercise of Public Health Powers

CHAPTER FIVE. Public Health Governance: Democracy and Delegation

CHAPTER SIX. Direct Regulation for the Public's Health and Safety

CHAPTER SEVEN. Tort Law and the Public's Health: Indirect Regulation

CHAPTER EIGHT. Taxation, Spending, and the Social Safety Net: Hidden Effects on Public Health

CHAPTER NINE. Surveillance and Public Health Research: Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality of Personal Health Information

CHAPTER TEN. Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Terrorism, Pandemics, and Disasters

CHAPTER TWELVE. Promoting Healthier Lifestyles: Noncommunicable Disease Prevention

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Promoting Safer Lifestyles: A Public Health Law Perspective on Accidents and Violence

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Health Justice and the Future of Public Health Law

Notes

About the Authors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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

ISBN:

9780520958586

0520958586

OCLC:

1102800346