Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint

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University of California Press, 2000 - 491 страници
Gostin’s timely book offers the first systematic definition and theory of public health law. Basing his definition on a broad notion of the government’s inherent responsibility to advance the population’s health and well-being, he develops a rich understanding of the government’s fundamental powers and duties. By analyzing constitutional powers and limits, as well as statutory, administrative, and tort law, Public Health Law vividly shows how law can become a potent tool for the realization of a healthier and safer population.

 

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A Theory and Definitions of Public Health Law
3
What Is Public in Public Health Law
5
The PopulationBased Perspective of Public Health
11
The Relationship between the People and the State
14
The Mission Functions and Services of the Public Health System
16
The Role of Coercion and Individual Rights in Public Health Law
18
Conclusion
21
Public Health in the Constitutional Design
25
Health and Safety Disclosure Requirements
165
A Case Study
167
Conclusion
171
Immunization Testing and Screening Bodily Integrity
175
Conceptualizing the Determinants of Health Disease
177
Immunizing the Population against Disease
179
Testing and Screening
187
Unreasonable Search and Seizure
195

The Absence of Government Duty
32
Federal Power to Assure the Conditions for Public Health
34
State and Local Power to Assure the Conditions for Public Health
47
Public Health in the American Federalist System
55
Conclusion
59
Constitutional Limits on the Exercise of Public Health Powers Safeguarding Individual Rights and Freedoms
61
Public Health and the Bill of Rights
62
Constitutional Limitations on the Police Power in the Early Twentieth Century
65
Public Health Powers in the Modern Constitutional Era
71
Public Health Regulation A Systematic Evaluation
85
General Justifications for Public Health Regulation
88
Understanding Risk
93
The MeansEnds Test
99
The Economic Costs of Public Health Regulation
100
The Least Restrictive Alternative
103
Just Distribution of Benefits Burdens and Costs
104
The Synergy between Human Rights and Public Health
107
PUBLIC HEALTH AND CIVIL LIBERTIES IN CONFLICT
111
Public Health Information Personal Privacy
113
Public Health Surveillance
116
Mandatory Reporting of Disease and Other Health Conditions
117
Partner Notification
121
PopulationBased Research
124
Definitions of Privacy Confidentiality and Security
127
Personally Identifiable Coded and Anonymous Data
129
Ethical Underpinnings
131
Legal Status
132
Confidentiality
135
Toward a Model Public Health Information Privacy Law
139
Health Communication and Behavior Freedom of Expression
145
Two Antithetical Theories of Health Communication
146
Public Health Communications
148
Commercial Speech
154
Compulsory Screening from a Disability Discrimination Perspective
197
HIV Screening of Pregnant Women and Infants
199
Restrictions of the Person Autonomy Liberty and Bodily Integrity
203
A Brief History of Personal Control Measures
204
Isolation Quarantine and Compulsory Hospitalization
208
Compulsory Physical Examination and Medical Treatment
216
Knowing or Willful Exposure to Infection
224
Economic Behavior and the Publics Health Direct Regulation
237
A Brief History of Commercial Regulation
239
Public Health Agencies and the Rise of the Administrative
242
The Regulatory Tools of Public Health Agencies
252
Contracts Property Uses and Takings
261
The Normative Value of Economic Liberty
265
Tort Law and the Publics Health Indirect Regulation
269
Major Theories of Tort Liability
271
Scientific Conundrums in Mass Tort Litigation
282
The Public Health Value of Tort Litigation
288
A Case Study
290
A Case Study
297
Social and Economic Costs
303
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH LAW
307
Public Health Law Reform
309
The Inherent Problems of Public Health
310
Three Concepts of Public Health and Liberty
315
Guidelines for Public Health Law Reform
316
The Future of Public Health Law
327
Notes
329
Selected Bibliography
449
Table of Cases
465
Index
483
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Lawrence O. Gostin is Professor of Law at Georgetown University and Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as Director of the CDC Collaborating Center for Law & the Public's Health. His publications include Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (California, 2000) and Public Health and Human Rights in the AIDS Pandemic (1997).

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