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Public Health Law and Ethics
This updated edition reader includes new discussions of today’s most pressing health threats, such as chronic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, biosecurity, opioid overdose, gun violence, and health disparities.
Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor and Founding Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University, where he directs the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He is also the director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law and Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Lindsay F. Wiley is Professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law where she directs the Health Law and Policy Program. She is President of the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics and a former member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.
"Public Health Law and Ethics is an essential part of every public health practitioner's toolkit. It provides critical insight into a wide range of core and emerging public health issues and offers tools for public health leaders and agencies to work to affect policy change. This book has helped my team to think courageously and aggressively as we seek to combat health disparities in Baltimore." —Leana Wen, Health Commissioner, City of Baltimore, Maryland and author of When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests