cases, controversies, and COVID-19 Noah, Lars creator author. text ncu 2023 monographic eng

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xv, 892 pages ; 26 cm "The varied responses to our latest pandemic have embroiled all three branches of the U.S. government-as well as the private sector-in a dizzying range of legal disputes, colored by growing partisanship and deepening ideological divisions. This casebook includes 140 judicial decisions, more than one-third of which are less than three years old and almost one-quarter of which relate to Covid-19. Other included case law covers the likes of smallpox, influenza, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, salmonella and other bacterial threats, smoking and vaping, obesity and diabetes, drug and alcohol abuse, gun violence, motor vehicle accidents, and lead contamination. Instead of focusing on either discrete issue areas (e.g., respiratory contagions) or clusters of legal rules (e.g., free exercise of religion), this casebook groups the excerpted opinions and affiliated discussion by reference to the various tools available for promoting the public's health, broadly divided according to whether government intervention aims to manage (1) people, (2) places, (3) things, or (4) information. Obviously, these tools often overlap, and the final chapter attempts to recombine them in assessing the multifaceted nature of policy responses to a handful of modern problems. Designed for use in law school, Law and the Public's Health focuses specifically on public law rather than health law and medical ethics, making it an accessible casebook for law students without a background in medicine"-- Prologue. -- Chapter 1 -- Golden oldies to set the tone. -- Part I. -- Managing people. -- Chapter 2 -- Restricting freedom of movement. -- Chapter 3 -- Dictating the use of safeguards. Part II. -- Managing places. -- Chapter 4 -- Noncommercial settings. -- Chapter 5 -- Commercial settings. -- Part III. -- Managing things. -- Chapter 6 -- Products and services. -- Chapter 7 -- Environmental threats. -- Part IV. -- Managing information. -- Chapter 8 -- Acquiring and sharing particularized information. -- Chapter 9 -- Regulating and communicating general information. -- Epilogue. -- Chapter 10 -- Multifaceted policy design. Lars Noah. Public health laws United States Medical policy United States Medical laws and legislation Cases United States KF 3775 .N63 2023 9781531025090 2023935762 PUCPR 230331 20240418091508.0 23043519 eng