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Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America
Amy L. Fairchild
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Description for Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America
Paperback. Presents the history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. This work situates the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context. Series: California/ Milbank Books on Health & the Public. Num Pages: 368 pages, 23 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 588.
This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease to health authorities inevitably poses questions about the interplay between the imperative to control threats to the public's health and legal and ethical concerns about privacy. Authors Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove situate the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context and show how the changing meaning and significance of privacy have marked the politics and practice of ... Read more
This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease to health authorities inevitably poses questions about the interplay between the imperative to control threats to the public's health and legal and ethical concerns about privacy. Authors Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove situate the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context and show how the changing meaning and significance of privacy have marked the politics and practice of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
California/ Milbank Books on Health & the Public
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520253254
SKU
V9780520253254
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About Amy L. Fairchild
The authors are with the Center for History and Ethics of Public Health in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Amy L. Fairchild, Associate Professor, is the author of Science at the Borders: Immigration Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force (2003). Ronald Bayer, Professor, is the author ... Read more
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