Public Health Law and Ethics - 3rd Edition by Lawrence O Gostin & Lindsay F Wiley (Paperback)

About the Book

"Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader, 3rd Edition probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisive selection of judicial opinions, scholarly articles, and government reports. Crafted to be accessible to students while thorough enough to be used by practitioners, policy makers, scholars, and teachers alike, the reader can be used as a stand-alone resource, or alongside the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power Duty, Restraint, 3rd Edition. This third edition reader includes discussions of today's most pressing health threats, such as chronic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, biosecurity, opioid overdose, gun violence, and health disparities"--Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader, 3rd Edition probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisive selection of judicial opinions, scholarly articles, and government reports. Crafted to be accessible to students while thorough enough for use by practitioners, policy makers, scholars, and teachers alike, the reader can be used as a stand-alone resource or alongside the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, 3rd Edition.

This updated edition reader includes new discussions of today's most pressing health threats, such as chronic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, biosecurity, opioid overdose, gun violence, and health disparities.

From the Back Cover

"Public Health Law and Ethics--companion to the outstanding volume Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint--provides a thoughtful and applied approach to a nascent academic field. More important, through a careful selection of excerpts, it offers reasonable policy and legal answers to the practical dilemmas faced by those interested in improving public health, in general, and the health conditions of the vulnerable, in particular."--Julio Frenk, President of the University of Miami and former Minister of Health of Mexico

"Public Health Law and Ethics is an essential part of every public health practitioner's toolkit. It provides critical insight into a wide range of core and emerging public health issues and offers tools for public health leaders and agencies to work to affect policy change. This book has helped my team to think courageously and aggressively as we seek to combat health disparities in Baltimore." --Leana Wen, Health Commissioner, City of Baltimore, Maryland and author of When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests

About the Author

Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor and Founding Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University, where he directs the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He is also the director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law and Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

Lindsay F. Wiley is Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law where she directs the Health Law and Policy Program. She is President of the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics and a former member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.