Searching Eyes : Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fairchild, Amy L.
Otros Autores: Wolfe, Daniel, 1960-, Colgrove, James Keith, Bayer, Ronald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Datenschutz
Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Datenerhebung
Meldepflichtige Krankheit
Public health surveillance.
Privacy, Right of.
Confidential communications.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
Secret professionnel.
Sante publique > Surveillance.
Public Health Practice > history
Privacy
Health Policy > history
Confidentiality
Population Surveillance
USA.
United States
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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