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Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint

Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint

Paperback

General Law

ISBN10: 0520282655
ISBN13: 9780520282650
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Feb 2 2016
Pages: 768
Weight: 2.20
Height: 1.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Lawrence O. Gostin's seminal 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.

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:

- Corporate personhood rights raised in response to regulations of tobacco, food and beverages, alcohol, firearms, prescription drugs, and marijuana.

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