Public Health Law

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Foreword by Daniel M. Fox, Samuel L. Milbank, and Carmen Hooker Odom
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments

PART ONE: Conceptual Foundations of Public Health Law

1. A Theory and Definition of Public Health Law

Public Health Law: A Definition and Core Values
Public Health Statutes: Legal Foundations of Public Health Agencies
Law as a Tool for the Public's Health: Models of Legal Intervention
The Legitimate Scope of Public Health and the Law

2. Public Health Regulation: A Systematic Evaluation

General Justifications for Public Health Regulation
Step 1: Is the Risk Significant? Risk Assessments
Step 2: Is the Regulation Effective? The "Means/Ends" Test
Step 3: Is the Regulation Cost-Effective?
Step 4: Is the Regulation the Least Restrictive Alternative? Personal Burdens
Step 5: Is the Regulation Fair? Just Distribution of Benefits, Burdens, and Costs
"Transparency": A Principle of Good Public Health Governance
The "Precautionary Principle": Acting under Conditions of Scientific Uncertainty

PART TWO: Law and the Public's Health

3. Public Health Law in the Constitutional Design: Public Health Powers and Duties

Constitutional Functions and Their Application to Public Health
The Negative Constitution: The Absence of Government's Duty to Protect Health and Safety
State and Local Power to Ensure the Conditions for the Public's Health: Salus Populi Est Suprema Lex
Federal Power to Safeguard the Public's Health
New Federalism and the Public's Health

4. Constitutional Limits on the Exercise of Public Health Powers: Safeguarding Individual Rights and Freedoms

Public Health and the Bill of Rights: The Incorporation Doctrine
Jacobson v. Massachusetts: Police Power and Civil Liberties in Tension
The Enduring Meaning of Jacobson
Public Health Powers in the Modern Constitutional Era

5. Public Health Governance: Direct Regulation for the Public's Health and Safety

A Brief History of Public Health Regulation
Public Health Agencies and the Rise of the Administrative State
Administrative Law: Powers and Limits of Executive Agencies
New Governance: Theory and Practice

6. Tort Law and the Public's Health: Indirect Regulation

Major Theories of Tort Liability
Scientific Conundrums in Mass Tort Litigation: Epidemiology in the Courtroom
The Public Health Value of Tort Litigation
"The Tobacco Wars": A Case Study
Tort Litigation to Prevent Firearm Injuries: A Case Study
The Limitations of Tort Law: Social and Economic Costs

7. Global Health Law: Health in a Global Community
Globalization and the Spread of Infectious Disease, Man-Made and Controllable
The Epidemiologic Transition from Infectious to Noncommunicable Diseases: A Double Burden in Resource-Poor Countries
International Health Regulations: A Historic Development in Global Governance
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Global Strategies to Reduce Smoking
World Trade and World Health
Human Rights: Advancing Dignity, Justice, and Security in Health

PART THREE: Public Health and Civil Liberties in Conflict

8. Surveillance and Public Health Research: Personal Privacy and the "Right to Know"

Public Health Surveillance
Mandatory Reporting of Diseases and Other Health Conditions
Physician and Community Resistance to Notification Laws: Case Studies on HIV and Diabetes Surveillance
Partner Notification: Contact Tracing, Duty to Warn, and Right to Know
Public Health Research
Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security: Defining Concepts
Health Information Privacy: Ethical Underpinnings
Health Information Privacy: Legal Status
Toward a Model Public Health Information Privacy Law

9. Health, Communication, and Behavior: Freedom of Expression

Two Antithetical Theories of Health Communication
Government Speech: Public Health Communications
When Government Speaks: A Constitutional Perspective
Commercial Speech
Compelled Commercial Speech: Health and Safety Disclosure Requirements
Food Marketing to Children: A Case Study

10. Medical Countermeasures for Epidemic Disease: Bodily Integrity

Compulsory Vaccination: Immunizing the Population against Disease
Testing and Screening
A Case Study on HIV Screening: Public Health and Civil Liberties in Conflict?
Compulsory Physical Examination and Medical Treatment

11. Public Health Strategies for Epidemic Disease: Association, Travel, and Liberty

A Brief History of the Ancient Power of Quarantine
Isolation and Quarantine: Law, Ethics, and Public Policy
Community Containment Strategies
Pandemic Influenza: A Case Study on Medical Countermeasures and Public Health Interventions

12. Economic Liberty and the Pursuit of Public Health

The Regulatory Tools of Public Health Agencies
Economic Liberty: Contracts, Property Uses, and "Takings"
The Normative Value of Economic Liberty

PART FOUR: The Future of the Public's Health

13. Concluding Reflections on the Field

Public Health, Politics, and Money
Leadership and Jurisdiction
Legitimacy and Trust
Powers and Limits in Public Health: A Case Study on Obesity and Chronic Disease
The Future of Public Health Law

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Table of Cases
Index
About the Author