Searching eyes: privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America

This history of public health service in the United States spans more than a century of conflict and controversy with the authors situating the tension inherent in public health surveilance in a broad social and political context.

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Hauptverfasser: Fairchild, Amy L. (VerfasserIn), Bayer, Ronald (VerfasserIn), Colgrove, James Keith (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley [u.a.] Univ. of California Press [u.a.] 2007
Schriftenreihe:California/Milbank books on health and the public 18
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Zusammenfassung:This history of public health service in the United States spans more than a century of conflict and controversy with the authors situating the tension inherent in public health surveilance in a broad social and political context.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-327) and index
Preface: the politics of privacy, the politics of surveillance -- Introduction: surveillance and the landscape of privacy in twentieth-century America -- Opening battles: tuberculosis and the foundations of surveillance -- Raising the veil: syphilis and secrecy -- The right to know: detection, reporting, and prevention of occupational disease -- The right to be counted: confronting the "menace of cancer" -- Who shall count the little children? from "crippled kiddies" to birth defects -- AIDS, activism, and the vicissitudes of democratic privacy -- Counting all kids: immunization registries and the privacy of parents and children -- Panoptic visions and stubborn realities in a new era of privacy -- Conclusion: an enduring tension
Beschreibung:xxiv, 342 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780520252028
9780520253254

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