Public health law in a nutshell

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Where to find it

Law Library — 2nd Floor Collection (2nd floor)

Call Number
KF3775.Z9 H63 2016
Status
Available

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Summary

Public Health Law in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (2016) provides a fascinating, informative, and concise assessment of the critical role of law in American society to protect the community's health. Updated to reflect modern developments through 2015 in this ever-developing field, the Nutshell's 10 chapters lay out definitive legal issues underlying core public health powers to prevent and control communicable and chronic conditions like influenza, obesity, cancer, and heart disease. The text also explores legal routes to address sources of other public health threats, including tobacco and alcohol use, guns, vehicles, and defective products. Additional chapters focused on information surveillance, commercial speech regulation, the built environment, and emergency preparedness provide concise clear assessments of difficult law and policy trade-offs. Understanding the field of public health law encompasses its constitutional sources and limits as well as historic and modern attempts to regulate in the interests of the community's health and safety. This Nutshell specifically explains and addresses these issues while also providing a modern framework supporting the role of law in this pivotal area of society. It is a "must read" for any legal or public health practitioner in the field, law- and policy-makers working to protect the public's health, as well as students in schools of law, public health, or medicine assessing these issues in prior or current coursework.

Contents

The field of public health law -- Source & scope of public health legal powers -- Constitutional rights & the public's health -- Preventing & treating communicable conditions -- Addressing chronic conditions -- Mitigating the incidence & severity of injuries & other harms -- Public health information management, privacy & security -- Regulating communications -- Monitoring property & the built environment -- Public health emergency legal preparedness & response.

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