Title:
Populations, public health, and the law Wendy E. Parmet.
Main Entry:
Parmet, Wendy E.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
Georgetown University Press,
Publication Date:
c2009.
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C. :
ISBN:
9781589012615 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1589012615 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Public health laws -- United States.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Public health and the population perspective -- Public health and American law -- Towards a population-based legal analysis : the Supreme Beef case -- Population health and federalism : whose job is it? -- Individual rights, population health, and due process -- A right to die? : further reflections on due process rights -- The First Amendment and the obesity epidemic -- A population-based health law -- Tort law : a population approach to private law -- Globalizing population-based legal analysis -- The future for population-based legal analysis -- Table of U.S. cases.
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