Public Health Law, Ethics, and Policy

One of the challenges of teaching public health law is that the subject matter is not self-contained and touches every other body of law. This book solves that problem by organising and integrating the material to address cross-cutting themes in public health policy, and the policy tools used by public health policymakers and practitioners.

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This pioneering book offers the most comprehensive and teachable compilation of materials on public health law now available.

One of the challenges of teaching public health law is that the subject matter is not self-contained and touches every other body of law. This book solves that problem by organizing and integrating the material to address (1) cross-cutting themes in public health policy and (2) the policy tools used by public health policymakers and practitioners.

In perhaps its most exciting innovation, Bonnie and Bernheim have constructed an intriguing and diverse menu of teachable units focused on specific policy problems or case studies in public health action. Each case study weaves together the perspectives of law, ethics and public policy.

This book is richly interdisciplinary. Although the basic anatomy of the book is organized around the law, the materials feature the empirical perspectives of the public health sciences and draw on cross-cutting themes and normative frameworks of applied ethics and public policy.

Although designed for students of law, the book can easily be adapted to courses designed for students in public health and public policy programs and other professional courses examining the role of law and public policy in advancing population health.