Public Health Law - Power, Duty, Restraint

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence O. Gostin is Associate Dean and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center! where he directs the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Dean Gostin is also Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health (a WHO and CDC Collaborating Center) and is Visiting Professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and Research Fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University. Klappentext First published in 2000! this title has been widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law at the start of the twenty-first century. It analyzes the major health threats! from emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism to chronic diseases caused by obesity. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Boxes Foreword by Daniel M. Fox! Samuel L. Milbank! and Carmen Hooker Odom Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH LAW PART TWO: LAW AND THE PUBLIC'S HEALTH PART THREE: PUBLIC HEALTH AND CIVIL LIBERTIES IN CONFLICT PART FOUR: THE FUTURE OF THE PUBLIC'S HEALTH Notes Selected Bibliography Table of Cases Index About the Author

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lawrence O. Gostin
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780520253766
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25376-6
• Pagine: 800
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 44 mm
• Serie: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public; California/ Milbank Books on Health & the Public
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri