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Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley : New York :
University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund,
©2007.
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| Colección: | California/Milbank books on health and the public ;
18. |
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| 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.