Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- A Reader in Public Health Law and Ethics: The Web Site -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Public Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights: Mapping the Issues -- PART ONE: Foundations of Public Health Law and Ethics -- 2. Public Health: The Population-Based Perspective -- Introduction and Private Rights and Liberties -- The Origins and Development of Public Health in the United States -- Institute of Medicine, The Functions of Public Health -- The Invisibility of Public Health: Population-Level Measures in a Politics of Market Individualism -- Actual Causes of Death in the United States -- Sick Individuals and Sick Populations -- 3. Public Health Ethics: The Communitarian Tradition -- Security and Welfare -- Community: The Neglected Tradition of Public Health -- Justice Is Good for Our Health -- 4. Human Rights and Public Health -- Human Rights and Health-The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 50 -- Health and Human Rights -- Medicine and Public Health, Ethics, and Human Rights -- Towards an Improved Understanding of the International Human Right to Health -- 5. Reasoning in Public Health: Philosophy, Risk, and Cost -- The Moral Bases for Public Health Interventions -- Supreme Court of Vermont, Benning v.Vermont -- Breaking the Vicious Circle: Towards Effective Risk Regulation -- Health-Health Tradeoffs -- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation? -- PART TWO: The Law and the Public's Health -- 6. Public Health Duties and Powers -- Health Care and the Constitution: Public Health and the Role of the State in the Framing Era -- Supreme Court of the United States, DeShaney v.Winnebago County Department of Social Services -- Supreme Court of the United States, South Dakota v. Dole.

Supreme Court of the United States, United States v.Lopez -- Governance, Police, and American Liberal Mythology -- Supreme Court of the United States, New York v. United States -- 7. Public Health and the Protection of Individual Rights -- Supreme Court of the United States, Jacobson v. Massachusetts -- Circuit Court, Northern District of California -- Supreme Court of the United States, City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center -- Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, Greene v.Edwards -- 8. Public Health Regulation of Property and the Professions -- Supreme Court of the United States, Food and Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp -- New York Court of Appeals, Boreali v. Axelrod -- Supreme Court of the United States, Dent v.West Virginia -- Supreme Court of the United States, Camara v.Municipal Court -- Supreme Court of New York, New York v. New St. Mark's Baths -- Supreme Court of the United States, Lochner v. New York -- Supreme Court of the United States, Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council -- 9. Tort Litigation for the Public's Health -- Litigating for the Public Health -- The New Public Health Litigation -- Epidemiology and the Law: Courts and Confidence Intervals -- Supreme Court of the United States, Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc -- Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom -- PART THREE: Tensions and Recurring Themes -- 10. Surveillance and Public Health Research: Privacy and the "Right to Know" -- Infectious Disease Surveillance: A Crumbling Foundation -- From TB to AIDS: Value Conflicts in Reporting Disease -- Mandatory Reporting of Diseases and Conditions by Health Care Providers and Laboratories -- Supreme Court of the United States, Whalen v. Roe -- Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- HIV Prevention and the Two Faces of Partner Notification.

Informational Privacy and the Public's Health: The Model State Public Health Privacy Act -- 11. Health Promotion: Education, Persuasion, and Free Expression -- Disquietudes -- Ethical Issues in Government-Sponsored Public Health Campaigns -- Supreme Court of the United States, 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island -- Supreme Court of the United States, Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly -- Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, International Dairy Foods Association v. Amestoy -- 12. Biological Interventions to Control Infectious Disease: Immunization, Screening, and Treatment -- The Tragedy of the Commons -- Supreme Court of the United States, Zucht v. King -- Supreme Court of Mississippi, Brown v. Stone -- Warrants for Screening Programs: Public Health, Legal, and Ethical Frameworks -- Supreme Court of the United States, Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Association -- Supreme Court of the United States, Ferguson v. City of Charleston -- Directly Observed Therapy for Tuberculosis: History of an Idea -- 13. Restrictions of the Person: Civil Confinement and Criminal Punishment -- The Early History of Quarantine: Origin of Sanitary Measures Directed against Yellow Fever -- Supreme Court of South Carolina, Kirk v.Wyman -- Supreme Court of Ohio, Ex parte Company -- Supreme Court, Queens County, City of New York v. Antoinette R -- Nushawn's Girls -- Indiana Court of Appeals -- Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States v. Sturgis -- PART FOUR: The Future of Public Health -- 14. Vision and Challenges: Case Studies on Emerging Infections, Bioterrorism, and Public Health Genetics -- Infectious Diseases: An Ecological Perspective -- Antibiotic Availability and Use: Consequences to Man and His Environment -- The Looming Threat of Bioterrorism.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biological and Chemical Terrorism: Strategic Plan for Preparedness and Response -- Challenges in Communicating Genetics: A Public Health Approach -- Two Models for Genetic Intervention -- Bibliography -- Table of Cases -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Author.