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Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America
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Title
Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe.
ISBN
9780520252028 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520252020 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520253254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520253256 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, c2007.
Physical Description
xxiv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 05, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-327) and index.
Contents
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.
Subjects (Medical)
Population Surveillance - United States.
Confidentiality - United States.
Health Policy - history - United States.
Privacy - United States.
Public Health Practice - history - United States.
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