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Constitutional contagion : COVID, the courts, and public health / Wendy Parmet.
Van Pelt Library KF3803.C68 P37 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parmet, Wendy E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- COVID-19 (Disease)--Law and legislation--United States.
- COVID-19 (Disease).
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--United States.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Public health laws--United States.
- Public health laws.
- Medical policy--United States.
- Medical policy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 235 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "This book looks at Supreme Court decisions, legal history, and public health theory to tell the story of how the Supreme Court stymied efforts to control the pandemic, as well as how its pre-pandemic decisions left the United States especially vulnerable to COVID-19 and other health threats"-- Provided by the publisher.
- Contents:
- Disaster awaits
- A new approach
- Salus populi suprema lex
- The end of salus populi
- COVID comes to court
- The mandate wars
- An asymmetry of rights
- An unequal pandemic
- The infodemic
- An unhealthy polity
- "A republic, if you can keep it."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781009098335
- 1009098330
- 9781009096157
- 100909615X
- OCLC:
- 1346364604
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