...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...

...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...

...Sarah E. Gollust Anna Kirkland . Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury . New York : New York University Press , 2016 . 288 pp. $40.00 cloth. Meredith Wadman . The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease . New York : Viking...

...Howard A. Palley 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. © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007...

...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...

...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...

...Sylvia N. Tesh Conventional public health wisdom holds that the end of the nineteenth century saw a dramatic change in beliefs about what causes disease, as early convictions about the importance of broad social factors gave way to a concentration on microorganisms. I argue, however, that in both...

...: Churchill. Commentary Finding a Function for Public Health: Disease Theory or Political Philosophy? Christopher Hamlin University of Notre Dame In her essay, “Miasma...

...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...

...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...

.... 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...

...Troyen A. Brennan; Robert F. Carter How to evaluate and apply probabilistic scientific evidence that cancer (or other diseases) have been caused by chemical substances (or other environmental agents) constitutes a critical problem which must be addressed by legal institutions. This article analyzes...

...Jacqueline Karnell Corn 670 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law David Rorner and Gerald Markowitz. Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-CenturyAmerica. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. 229 pp. $29.95 cloth...

...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...

... 9 . Editor’s Note The Power of Ideas — Cost Effectiveness, Public Participation, and Fighting Disease As I sit down to write this editorial note, the US presidential campaign is upon us, and we are all deluged with a heavy dose of symbolic...

...Heather A. Elliott; David K. Jones; Scott L. Greer Understanding both the current performance of communicable disease control in Europe and the scale of the differences among systems is crucial to understanding its present performance and possible Europeanization. We attempt to identify...

...Margitta Mätzke This commentary discusses the causes and consequences of diversity in how European countries organize communicable disease control. Drawing on the historical record of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it first reviews the main explanations of that diversity...

...Tamara Hervey What role(s) does the European Court of Justice (ECJ) play in the Europeanization of communicable disease control? Drawing on a review of the ECJ's case law, especially but not exclusively in public health fields, from the 1950s to 2009, this article argues that the ECJ's past...

...Scott L. Greer The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is the small agency established by the European Union (EU) to act as a hub for disease control, drawing on networks across the continent to achieve what other political systems do with large agencies. Despite...