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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Law, Ethics, Malpractice, Accreditation & Compliance Books > Public Health Law Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint,
2nd Edition Paperback: 518 pages
Lawrence O. Gostin's timely book offers the systematic definition and theory of public health law.
Basing
his definition on a broad notion of the government's inherent
responsibility to advance the population's health and well-being,
Gostin develops a rich understanding of the government's fundamental
powers and duties. By analyzing constitutional powers and limits, as
well as statutory, administrative, and tort law, Public Health
Law vividly shows how law can become a potent tool for the
realization of a healthier and safer population.
Gostin demonstrates that while regulation achieves powerful
public goods, it often does so at the expense of private rights.
Consequently, in thinking about public health regulation, he takes a
hard look at the tradeoffs-between the common welfare on the one
hand and the personal burdens and economic interests of individuals
and businesses on the other.
Public Health Law creates an intellectual framework for
the field of public health-as distinct from related fields that
center on personal health care delivery and regulation-and supports
that framework with rich material illustrating the intellectual,
scientific, political, and ethical issues involved. It provides the
basis for cross-disciplinary exchange between law and the various
allied public health disciplines and complements texts in the fields
of AIDS, human rights, health care, and health law. In proposing
innovative solutions for the future of public health, Gostin's
essential study provides a blueprint for future public and political
debates on the questions encompassed by this vital and burgeoning
field engenders. Public Health Law has been
widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law at
the start of the twenty-first century. Lawrence O. Gostin's
definition was based on the notion that government bears a
responsibility for advancing the health and well-being of the
general population, and the book developed a rich understanding of
the government's powers and duties while showing law to be an
effective tool in the realization of a healthier and safer
population. In this second edition, Gostin analyzes the major health
threats of our times, from emerging infectious diseases and
bioterrorism to chronic diseases caused by obesity. 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.
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