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  • - A Blueprint for the Future
    af Lawrence O. Gostin
    396,95 kr.

    In an age of pandemics, no country can achieve public health on its own. Health security expert Lawrence O. Gostin examines the key cross-border threats to our well-being, from infectious diseases to bioterrorism, and proposes pragmatic solutions: targeted research, robust international institutions, and tools for effective global action.

  • - Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations
    af Lawrence O. Gostin
    753,95 kr.

    In this collection of essays, Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world. He shows how HIV/AIDS affects the entire population - infected and uninfected - by influencing social norms, the economy, and the US's role as a world leader.

  • - Politics and Privacy
    af Lawrence O. Gostin
    312,95 kr.

    an excellent sample of some of the best and most varied thinking so far on the numerous conceptual, moral, social, and policy questions raised by contract motherhood." -The Journal of Clinical Ethics

  • - Power, Duty, Restraint
    af Lawrence O. Gostin & Lindsay F. Wiley
    779,95 kr.

    Lawrence O. Gostin's seminalPublic Health Lawis widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law at the turn of the twenty-first century. In this bold third edition, Gostin is joined by Lindsay F. Wiley to analyze major health threats of our time such as chronic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, bioterrorism, natural disasters, opiod overdose, and gun violence. The authors draw on constitutional law, administrative law, local government law, and tort law to develop their conception of law as a tool for protecting the public's health. The book creates an intellectual framework for modern public health law and supports that framework with illustrations of the scientific, political, and ethical issues involved. In proposing innovative solutions for the future of the public's health, Gostin and Wiley's essential study provides a blueprint for public and political debates to come. New issues covered in this edition: *; Corporate personhood rights raised in response to regulations of tobacco, food and beverages, alcohol, firearms, prescription drugs, and marijuana. *; Local government authority to protect the public's health. *; Deregulation and harm reduction as modes of public health law intervention. *; Taxation, spending, and alteration of the socioeconomic environment as modes of public health law intervention. *; Access to health care as a strategy for protecting the public's health. *; Taxation, spending, licensing, zoning, and shared-use strategies for chronic disease prevention. *; The public health law perspective on violence and injury prevention. *; Health justice as a framework for reducing health disparities and protecting the public's health.

  • af Lawrence O. Gostin
    650,95 kr.

    Despite global progress, staggering health inequalities between rich and poor raise basic questions of social justice. Defining the field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective governance and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right.