Reconsidering Law and Policy Debates (eBook, ePUB)

A Public Health Perspective
Redaktion: Culhane, John G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book approaches a variety of social and political issues that have become highly polarized and resistant to compromise by examining them through a population-based public health perspective. The topics included are some of the most contentious: abortion and reproductive rights; end-of-life issues, including the right to die and the treatment of pain; the connection between racism and poor health outcomes for African-Americans; the right of same-sex couples to marry; the toll of gun violence and how to reduce it; domestic violence and how the criminal justice model fails to deal with it effectively; and how tort compensation and punitive damages can further public health goals. People at every point along the political spectrum will find the book enlightening and informative. Written by eight authors, all of whom have cross-disciplinary expertise, this book shifts the focus away from the point of view of rights, politics, or morality and examines the effect of laws and policies from the perspective of public health and welfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511852626
• Artikelnr.: 52957799

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Birth and Death: 1. Beyond privacy: a population approach to
reproductive rights Wendy E. Parmet; 2. Stretching the boundaries of public
health: should end of life care be a public health issue? Diane E.
Hoffmann; Part II. The Limits of Civil Rights: 3. Dying while black in
America: Maslow's hierarchy of need and racial policy-making Vernellia
Randall; 4. Public health and marriage (equality) John G. Culhane; Part
III. Dimensions of Violence: 5. Using public health to reform the legal and
justice response to domestic violence Evan Stark; 6. Law and policy
approaches to keeping guns from high risk people Jon S. Vernick, Daniel W.
Webster and Katherine Vittes; Part IV. Beyond Compensation: Public Features
of Private Litigation: 7. Tort litigation for the public's health Elizabeth
Weeks Leonard; 8. Punitive damages and the public health agenda Jean
Macchiaroli Eggen.