...Wendy E. Parmet The policy debate over AIDS has focused on how to balance the rights of individuals who have the disease against the rights of the public. This paper examines the nature of both sets of rights by analyzing the development of public health law and its dominant visions today. The...

...Elizabeth M. Armstrong; Daniel P. Carpenter; Marie Hojnacki Diseases capture public attention in varied ways and to varying degrees. In this essay, we use a unique data set that we have collected about print and broadcast media attention to seven diseases across nineteen years in order to address...

...Daniel M. Fox HIV infection is now perceived as the end stage of a chronic disease that is spreading most rapidly among blacks and Hispanics. The politics of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s were dominated by four interacting factors: fear and fascination; who had the disease and to whom it seemed to...

.... Fingarette , H. 1990 . We Should Reject the Disease Concept of Alcoholism. Harvard Medical School Mental Health Letter 6 ( 8 ): 4 -6. Kuhn , T. 1962 . The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1st ed. Chicago: University of Chicago press. Stone , D. 1984 . The Disabled State...

.../03616878-2007-041 1046 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Constance A. Nathanson. Disease Prevention as Social Change: The State, Society, and Public Health in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. 328 pp. $37.50 cloth...

...Graham Mooney Peter Baldwin. Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. 478 pp. $44.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. Duke University Press 2007 Baldwin, Peter. Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930...

...Stephen D. Sugarman This article offers a bold new idea for confronting the staggering level of death, injury, and disease caused by five consumer products: cigarettes, alcohol, guns, junk food, and motor vehicles. Business leaders try to frame these negative outcomes as “collateral damage” that is...

...Beatrix Hoffman Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove. Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 342 + xxiv pp. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Duke University Press 2009...

...Howard M. Leichter Sylvia Noble Tesh, Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988), 215 pp., $30.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Book Reviews 583...

...Sylvia N. Tesh Barbara Ellen Smith, Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987), 270 pp., $24.95. Peter S. Barth, The Tragedy of Black Lung: Federal Compensation for Occupational Disease (Kalamazoo, MI: W. E...

...Rachel Kahn Best Abstract In the past fifty years, disease advocacy organizations have multiplied and gained political influence, but they have often been reluctant to ask the government to intervene in health care provision. This article asks why. Using original quantitative and qualitative data...

...Martin A. Strosberg Richard E. Neustadt and Harvey E. Fineberg. The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Book Reviews The Swine Flu Affair:Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease...

...Marcia J. Kramer Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Guest torial Self-Inflicted Disease: Who Should Pay for Care? Marcia J. Kramer, State University of New York at Stony Brook Because expenditures for medical care have...

...: Brunner/Mazel, Inc., 1978), 273 pp. Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Review Essays Choices Posed by Alternative Treatment Modalities for End Stage Renal Disease Louanne Kennedy, BaruchCollegelMt. Sinai School of Medicine, The City of...

...Sylvia Tesh This article distinguishes three current theories that purport to account for the etiology of chronic diseases: a germ theory, a lifestyle theory and an environmental theory. Since each of these proposals about disease causality implies a different locus of responsibility for disease...

...Lois M. Verbrugge E. J. Clegg and J. P. Garlick, eds., Disease and Urbanization : Volume 20, Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology (London: Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1980), 171 pp., $22.25. Distributed in the U.S. by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. Copyright...

...Tony Barnett; Corinna Sorenson Infectious diseases are a long-standing and continuing threat to health and welfare, with their containment dependent on national disease surveillance and response capacities. This article discusses infectious disease surveillance in the United States and the United...

...Rick Mayes; Thomas R. Oliver Why is it so politically difficult to obtain government investment in public health initiatives that are aimed at addressing chronic disease? This article examines the structural disadvantage faced by those who advocate for public health policies and practices to reduce...

...Lars Thorup Larsen Since the 1970s public health policy has attempted to counter the rise of chronic diseases by getting individuals to make healthy choices about smoking, alcohol, diet, and physical exercise. Inspired by the so-called new perspective of the 1974 Lalonde report, this shift from...

...Scott L. Greer; Margitta Mätzke Communicable disease control might be one of the oldest and most important functions of the modern state, but it receives very little attention today. This article introduces a special issue on the Europeanization of communicable disease control politics in Europe...