Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 342 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520252020
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0520253256
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0520941217
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1433708922
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1435611489
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9780520252028
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9780520253254
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9780520941212
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9781433708923
,
9781435611481
Series Statement:
California / Milbank books on health and the public 18
Content:
Presents the history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. This work situates the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context
Content:
Preface: the politics of privacy, the politics of surveillance -- Introduction: surveillance and the landscape of privacy in twentieth-century America -- Opening battles: tuberculosis and the foundations of surveillance -- Raising the veil: syphilis and secrecy -- The right to know: detection, reporting, and prevention of occupational disease -- The right to be counted: confronting the "menace of cancer" -- Who shall count the little children? from "crippled kiddies" to birth defects -- AIDS, activism, and the vicissitudes of democratic privacy -- Counting all kids: immunization registries and the privacy of parents and children -- Panoptic visions and stubborn realities in a new era of privacy -- Conclusion: an enduring tension
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-327) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fairchild, Amy L Searching eyes Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2007
Language:
English
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