Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America /
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| Author / Creator: | Fairchild, Amy L. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 342 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18 California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11157033 |
| Summary: | This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease to health authorities inevitably poses questions about the interplay between the imperative to control threats to the public's health and legal and ethical concerns about privacy. Authors Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove situate the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context and show how the changing meaning and significance of privacy have marked the politics and practice of surveillance since the end of the nineteenth century. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 342 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-327) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520941212 0520941217 9781435611481 1435611489 9780520252028 0520252020 9780520253254 0520253256 1433708922 9781433708923 |