Contents List of Illustrations  Foreword  Oxiris Barbot, MD Preface to Fourth Edition  Acknowledgments  PART ONE. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS  1. Public Health Law and Ethics: A Theory and Definitions  I. Public Health Law and Ethics: Definitions and Core Values  II. The Role of Law in Public Health Problem-Solving  III. The Legitimate Scope of Public Health Law  2. Risk Regulation: Science, Values, and Ethics  I. General Justifications for Coercive Public Health Regulation  II. Risk Assessment as a Foundation for Public Health Decisions  III. Systemic Evaluation of Risk Regulation  PART TWO. LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH  3. Individual Rights and Public Health  I. Individual Rights as Limits and Duties II. Historical Approaches to Balancing Individual Rights against Public Health: Jacobson  and Lochner  III. Limits on Public Health Powers in the Modern Constitutional Era  IV. The Court’s Originalist Turn: Implications for Public Health  4. Public Health Powers and Structural Limits  I. The Public Health Powers of Federal, State, and Local Governments  II. Separation of Powers among the Branches of Government  III. Private Enforcement of Federal Law against State and Local Governments: Standing and  Sovereign Immunity  IV. Public Health Governance in a Divided Nation  5. Administrative Agencies and Local Governments  I. Public Health Agencies and the Rise of the Administrative State  II. Administrative Law: The Powers and Limits of Executive Agencies  III. Local Government Authority  IV. Delegation, Democracy, Expertise, and Good Governance   PART THREE. MODES OF INTERVENTION  6. Direct Regulation and Deregulation for the Public’s Health and Safety  I. A Brief History of Public Health Regulation  II. Approaches to Regulation  III. Deregulation: Removing Legal Barriers to Effective Public Health Intervention  7. Tort Liability as Indirect Regulation  I. Major Theories of Tort Liability  II. The Causation Element: Epidemiology in the Courtroom  III. The Public Health Value of Tort Litigation  IV. The Tobacco Wars: A Case Study  V. The Tort Reform Movement 8. Taxation, Spending, and the Social Safety Net  I. Taxation and Incentives  II. The Power of Spending  III. Taxation and Spending to Promote Access to Health Care  IV. Case Study: Children’s Dental Health  PART FOUR. PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS IN CONTEXT  9. Screening, Surveillance, and Public Health Research  I. Public Health Screening  II. Public Health Surveillance  III. Public Health Research  IV. Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Security  V. Privacy and Public Health  10. Infectious Disease Prevention and Control  I. Vaccination to Protect the Population from Disease  II. Antimicrobial Therapy to Treat Individuals and Prevent Onward Transmission  III. Nonpharmacuetical Interventions and Social-Ecological Strategies  11. Public Health Emergencies  I. The Historical Impact of Public Health Emergencies  II. Structural Constraints in Emergency Management  III. Managing Disruption and Displacement  IV. Development, Distribution, and Acceptance of Medical Countermeasures  V. Nonpharmaceutical Interventions and Community Mitigation  VI. Facing Future Emergencies as a Deeply Divided Nation  12. Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Management  I. Evolving Public Health Strategies  II. The Information Environment and the First Amendment  III. The Marketplace: Product and Retailer Regulation  IV. The Built Environment  V. The Social Environment  13. Injury Prevention  I. Key Concepts in Injury Prevention  II. Worker Safety  III. Motor Vehicle and Consumer Product Injuries  IV. Current Issues in Injury Prevention  V. Firearm Injuries and the Second Amendment  14. Health Justice  I. Challenges: Politics, Money, Power, and Trust  II. Social Justice Movements and Public Health  III. The Future of Public Health Law and Ethics  

Praise for previous editions of PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS: “Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint does not disappoint. It presents not only a comprehensive overview of public health law but also a compelling case for why it is more vital than ever in our modern world.”—Margaret Hamburg, former U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drugs “No one has done more to map the conceptual and practical issues that must be engaged to translate a vision of public health into workable principles and strategies. Since its first edition, Public Health Law has brought defining clarity and insight to the field. Lawrence Gostin and Lindsay Wiley together add to the texture, context, and guidance for securing the legal foundation of policies that will enhance our health futures.”—J. Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP, and Senior Scholar at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies