Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint
by Lawrence O. Gostin /
2016 / English / PDF
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Lawrence O. Gostin’s seminal
Lawrence O. Gostin’s seminalPublic Health
Law
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, opiod 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.
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, opiod 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.
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:
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.
• 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.
• Local government authority to protect the public’s
health.
• Deregulation and harm reduction as modes of public health law
intervention.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Taxation, spending, licensing, zoning, and shared-use
strategies for chronic disease prevention.
• The public health law perspective on violence and injury
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.
• Health justice as a framework for reducing health disparities
and protecting the public’s health.