Public Health Law and Ethics

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).

List of Illustrations List of Tables Conventions Used in this Book Preface 1. Public Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights: Mapping the Issues Part One: Foundations of Public Health Law and Ethics 2. Public Health: The Population-Based Perspective 3. Public Health Ethics: The Communitarian Tradition 4. Human Rights and Public Health 5. Reasoning in Public Health: Philosophy, Risk, and Cost Part Two: The Law and the Public's Health 6. Public Health Duties and Powers 7. Public Health and the Protection of Individual Rights 8. Public Health Regulation of Property and the Professions... 9. Tort Litigation for the Public's Health Part Three: Tensions and Recurring Themes 10. Surveillance and Public Health Research: Privacy and the "Right to Know" 11. Health Promotion: Education, Persuasion, and Free Expression 12. Biological Interventions to Control Infectious Disease: Immunization, Screening, and Treatment 13. Restrictions of the Person: Civil Confinement and Criminal Punishment Part Four: The Future of Public Health 14. Visions and Challenges: Case Studies on Emerging Infections, Bioterrorism, and Public Health Genetics Bibliography Index