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Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint
Lawrence O. Gostin
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Description for Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint
Paperback. Helps you to develop a understanding of constitutional powers and limits, and tort law, demonstrating the importance of law as a tool in the realization of a healthier and safer population. This edition analyzes the role of law in addressing health threats, including emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism, natural disasters and car fatalities. Num Pages: 758 pages, 21 b/w illustrations, 54 b/w photographs, 23 tables. BIC Classification: LNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520282650
SKU
V9780520282650
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99-16
About Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor, the Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights at Georgetown University, and Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University Lindsay F. Wiley is Associate Professor at ... Read more
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