Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe.
Material type: TextSeries: California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520941212
- 0520941217
- 9781435611481
- 1435611489
- 9780520252028
- 0520252020
- 9780520253254
- 0520253256
- 1433708922
- 9781433708923
- Public health surveillance
- Privacy, Right of
- Confidential communications
- Population Surveillance
- Confidentiality
- Health Policy -- history
- Privacy
- Public Health Practice -- history
- United States
- Santé publique -- Surveillance
- Secret professionnel
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- MEDICAL -- Health Policy
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General
- MEDICAL -- Diseases
- MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery
- Privacy, Right of
- Public health surveillance
- Meldepflichtige Krankheit
- Datenerhebung
- Gesundheitsberichterstattung
- Datenschutz
- USA
- 362.10973 22
- RA652.2.P82 F35 2007eb
- WA 105
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-327) and index.
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.
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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.
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