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Legal foundations of public health law and its role in meeting future challengesLawrence Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Public Health 120:8-14; discussion 14-5. 2006
General justifications for public health regulationLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, N W Washington, DC 20001, USA
Public Health 121:829-34. 2007..This paper argues that the government gains the greatest legitimacy when regulating for the protection of harms to others, but even paternalism can support state action when health risks are socially embedded and harmful to the public...
Grand challenges in global health governanceLawrence O Gostin
The O Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Br Med Bull 90:7-18. 2009..This review identifies an agenda for global health by highlighting the current 'grand challenges' related to governance...
What does social justice require for the public's health? Public health ethics and policy imperativesLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:1053-60. 2006..This Commentary explores how social justice sheds light on major ongoing controversies in the field, and it provides examples of the kinds of policies that public health agencies, guided by a robust conception of justice, would adopt...
Physician-assisted suicide: a legitimate medical practice?Lawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 295:1941-3. 2006
Public health strategies for pandemic influenza: ethics and the lawLawrence Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
JAMA 295:1700-4. 2006
The Supreme Court's influence on medicine and health: the Rehnquist Court, 1986-2005Lawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 294:1685-7. 2005
Rights and duties of HIV infected health care professionalsLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Health Care Anal 10:67-85. 2002..A new national policy, focused on management of the workplace environment and injury prevention, would achieve high levels of patient safety without discrimination and invasion of privacy...
Ethics, the constitution, and the dying process: the case of Theresa Marie SchiavoLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 293:2403-7. 2005
Medical countermeasures for pandemic influenza: ethics and the lawLawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 295:554-6. 2006
Jacobson v Massachusetts at 100 years: police power and civil liberties in tensionLawrence O Gostin
Center for the Law and the Public s Health, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
Am J Public Health 95:576-81. 2005....
The International Health Regulations and beyondLawrence Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown, USA
Lancet Infect Dis 4:606-7. 2004
International infectious disease law: revision of the World Health Organization's International Health RegulationsLawrence O Gostin
The Center for Law and the Public s Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 291:2623-7. 2004..An important issue for the international community is how sovereign countries can join together to make global health work for everyone, the poor and the wealthy alike...
Law and ethics in population healthLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20001 2075, United States of America
Aust N Z J Public Health 28:7-12. 2004..Third, create a new public health ethic in society that truly values human health--advocate for a renewed commitment to the ideals of community and partnership, and stress citizens' duties to help and protect their fellow human beings...
HIV screening in health care settings: public health and civil liberties in conflict?Lawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 296:2023-5. 2006
Biomedical research involving prisoners: ethical values and legal regulationLawrence O Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 297:737-40. 2007
A broader liberty: J.S. Mill, paternalism and the public's healthL O Gostin
O Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Public Health 123:214-21. 2009....
President's emergency plan for AIDS relief: health development at the crossroadsLawrence O Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 300:2046-8. 2008
The right to bear arms: constitutional law, politics, and public healthLawrence Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 300:1575-7. 2008
'Old' and 'new' institutions for persons with mental illness: treatment, punishment or preventive confinement?Lawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
Public Health 122:906-13. 2008..If Dostoyevsky was correct that the 'degree of civilization... can be judged by entering its prisons', then by that measure, we are a deeply uncivilized society...
The deregulatory effects of preempting tort litigation: FDA regulation of medical devicesLawrence O Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 299:2313-6. 2008
The international migration and recruitment of nurses: human rights and global justiceLawrence O Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 299:1827-9. 2008
Global regulatory strategies for tobacco controlLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 298:2057-9. 2007
Abortion politics: clinical freedom, trust in the judiciary, and the autonomy of womenLawrence O Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 298:1562-4. 2007
Meeting the survival needs of the world's least healthy people: a proposed model for global health governanceLawrence O Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 298:225-8. 2007
Why rich countries should care about the world's least healthy peopleLawrence O Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 298:89-92. 2007
Ethical and legal challenges posed by severe acute respiratory syndrome: implications for the control of severe infectious disease threatsLawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public s Health at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 290:3229-37. 2003....
Deciding life and death in the courtroom. From Quinlan to Cruzan, Glucksberg, and Vacco--a brief history and analysis of constitutional protection of the 'right to die'L O Gostin
Georgetown Johns Hopkins University Program on Law and Public Health, Washington, DC, USA
JAMA 278:1523-8. 1997..The Supreme Court, hinting that it would find state legalization of physician-assisted suicide constitutional, invited the nation to pursue an earnest debate on physician assistance in the dying process...
Corporate speech and the Constitution: the deregulation of tobacco advertisingLawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public s Health, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Am J Public Health 92:352-5. 2002....
Health information: reconciling personal privacy with the public good of human healthL O Gostin
Georgetown University, 600 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Health Care Anal 9:321-35. 2001..Finally, a case study is provided showing the important trade-offs that exist between public health and privacy. For a model public health law, see www.critpath.org/msphpa/privacy...
Health promotion and the First Amendment: government control of the informational environmentL O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Milbank Q 79:547-78, iv. 2001..Accordingly, this article proposes legal and ethical principles relating to government control of the health information environment...
The "tobacco wars"--global litigation strategiesLawrence O Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 298:2537-9. 2007
Public health law in a new century: part II: public health powers and limitsL O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 283:2979-84. 2000..Provided that they act justly and reasonably to avert a serious health threat, the Court should cede to agencies the power to act for the communal good. JAMA. 2000...
National health information privacy: regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ActL O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001 2075, USA
JAMA 285:3015-21. 2001....
A proposed national policy on health care workers living with HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne pathogensL O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001 2075, USA
JAMA 284:1965-70. 2000..Inclusion of these principles would achieve high levels of patient safety without discrimination and invasion of privacy. JAMA. 2000;284:1965-1970...
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: planning for and response to bioterrorism and naturally occurring infectious diseasesLawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public s Health, Georgetown University, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 288:622-8. 2002..Law can be a tool to improve public health preparedness. A constitutional democracy must balance the common good with respect for personal dignity, toleration of groups, and adherence to principles of justice...
Public health law in a new century: part III: public health regulation: A systematic evaluationL O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 283:3118-22. 2000..As such, public health law has transcending importance in how we think about government, politics, and policy. JAMA. 2000...
Public health law in a new century: part I: law as a tool to advance the community's healthL O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001
JAMA 283:2837-41. 2000..jama. 2000;283:2837-2841..
The politics of public health: a response to EpsteinLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Perspect Biol Med 46:S160-75. 2003..Public health policy requires political and moral choices, but these choices should be transparent...
Human rights of persons with mental disabilities. The European Convention of Human RightsL O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D C 20001, USA
Int J Law Psychiatry 23:125-59. 2000..Yet, violations of human rights are a reality to be found in every corner of the globe...
HIV infection and AIDS in the public health and health care systems: the role of law and litigationL O Gostin
Georgetown Johns Hopkins Program on Law and Public Health, Washington, DC, USA
JAMA 279:1108-13. 1998..Considerable progress has been made, both socially and legally, during the first 2 decades of the epidemic, but much still needs to be accomplished to protect privacy, prevent discrimination, and promote tolerance...
Disability discrimination in America: HIV/AIDS and other health conditionsL O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001 2075, USA
JAMA 281:745-52. 1999..A state-by-state survey of those laws demonstrates that, consistent with Bragdon v Abbott, individuals with asymptomatic HIV have widespread protection on the state level...
Legal issues concerning electronic health information: privacy, quality, and liabilityJ G Hodge
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20013 6305, USA
JAMA 282:1466-71. 1999....
Public health measures to control tuberculosis in low-income countries: ethics and human rights considerationsJ D Kraemer
O Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 15:S19-24. 2011..Compulsory treatment is almost never acceptable. Governments should take care to respect human rights and ethical obligations as they execute TB control programs...
When terrorism threatens health: how far are limitations on personal and economic liberties justified?Lawrence O Gostin
Georgetown Univesity, Washington, DC, USA
Fla Law Rev 55:1105-70. 2003
Public health and civil liberties in an era of bioterrorismLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Crim Justice Ethics 21:2, 74-6. 2002
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: public health and civil liberties in a time of terrorismLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Health Matrix Clevel 13:3-32. 2003
Informational privacy and the public's health: the Model State Public Health Privacy ActL O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1388-92. 2001..The Model State Public Health Privacy Act provides strong privacy safeguards for public health data while preserving the ability of state and local public health departments to act for the common good...
Pandemic Influenza: public health preparedness for the next global health emergencyLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
J Law Med Ethics 32:565-73. 2004
The human rights of persons with mental disabilities: a global perspective on the application of human rights principles to mental healthLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
MD Law Rev 63:20-121. 2004
World health law: toward a new conception of global health governance for the 21st centuryLawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown University, USA
Yale J Health Policy Law Ethics 5:413-24. 2005
Health of the people: the highest law?Lawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
J Law Med Ethics 32:509-15. 2004
The global reach of HIV/AIDS: science, politics, economics, and researchLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Emory Int Law Rev 17:1-54. 2003
Law as a tool to facilitate healthier lifestyles and prevent obesityLawrence O Gostin
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
JAMA 297:87-90. 2007
The pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act: improving public health emergency responseJames G Hodge
Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown, Washington, DC, USA
JAMA 297:1708-11. 2007
"Police" powers and public health paternalism: HIV and diabetes surveillanceLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 37:9-10. 2007
Personal privacy and common goods: a framework for balancing under the national health information privacy ruleLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA
Minn Law Rev 86:1439-79. 2002
Federal executive power and communicable disease control: CDC quarantine regulationsLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 36:10-1. 2006
Public health law reformL O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1365-8. 2001..Ultimately, the law should become a catalyst, rather than an impediment, to reinvigorating the public health system...
The built environment and its relationship to the public's health: the legal frameworkWendy Collins Perdue
Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1390-4. 2003..This article reviews the connection between public health and the built environment and then describes the legal pathways for improving the design of our built environment...
Medical marijuana, American federalism, and the Supreme CourtLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
JAMA 294:842-4. 2005
Public health and the built environment: historical, empirical, and theoretical foundations for an expanded roleWendy C Perdue
Georgetown University Law Center, USA
J Law Med Ethics 31:557-66. 2003
Mental health and due process in the Americas: protecting the human rights of persons involuntarily admitted to and detained in psychiatric institutionsLance Gable
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Rev Panam Salud Publica 18:366-73. 2005
AIDS policy, politics, and law: reflections on the pandemicLawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, Washington, DC, USA
AIDS Read 15:164-7. 2005
Finding a space for the public's health in bioterrorism funding: a commentaryLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Am J Bioeth 5:45-7. 2005
International human rights law and mental disabilityLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 34:11-2. 2004
Influenza pandemic preparedness: legal and ethical dimensionsLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 34:10-1. 2004
Using the turning point model state public health lawLawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, USA
J Law Med Ethics 31:88-9. 2003
Quarantine: voluntary or not?Lawrence O Gostin
Center for Law and the Public's Health, Georgetown Law Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Law Med Ethics 32:83-6. 2004
When terrorism threatens health: how far are limitations on human rights justifiedLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
J Law Med Ethics 31:524-8. 2003
The duty of States to assist other States in need: ethics, human rights, and international lawLawrence O Gostin
Research nad Academic Programs, Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, USA
J Law Med Ethics 35:526-33, 511. 2007..Transnational cooperation needs to be more effective and consistent to provide assistance for the world's poorest and least healthy people...
Property rights and the common goodLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 36:10-1. 2006
The future of the public's health: vision, values, and strategiesLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:96-107. 2004..quot;..
The negative Constitution: the duty to protectLawrence O Gostin
Research and Academic Programs, Georgetown University, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 35:10-1. 2005
Global health law, ethics, and policyLawrence O Gostin
Research nad Academic Programs, Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, USA
J Law Med Ethics 35:519-25. 2007
Compulsory medical treatment: the limits of bodily integrityLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 33:11-2. 2003
Public health law: a renaissanceLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University, USA
J Law Med Ethics 30:136-40. 2002
Global climate change: the Roberts Court and environmental justiceLawrence O Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 37:10-1. 2007
Balancing public health and civil libertiesLawrence O Gostin
Science 298:2129; author reply 2129. 2002
Legal barriers to implementing recommendations for universal, routine prenatal HIV testingLeslie E Wolf
Program in Medical Ethics, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Law Med Ethics 32:137-47. 2004
Public health law in an age of terrorism: rethinking individual rights and common goodsLawrence O Gostin
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:79-93. 2002..Finally, the paper offers a systematic defense of MSEHPA, which has galvanized the public debate around the appropriate balance between public goods and individual rights...
Legislating and litigating health care rights around the worldColleen M Flood
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
J Law Med Ethics 33:636-40. 2005
Public health emergencies and legal reform: implications for public health policy and practiceLawrence O Gostin
The Faculties of Georgetown University Law Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Public Health Rep 118:477-9. 2003
Science and public health policy makersPeter A Briss
Community Guide Section, Coordinating Center for Health Information and Services, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Law Med Ethics 33:89-93. 2005
Public health ethics: mapping the terrainJames F Childress
University of Virginia, USA
J Law Med Ethics 30:170-8. 2002
The new International Health Regulations: an historic development for international law and public healthDavid P Fidler
Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, IN, USA
J Law Med Ethics 34:85-94, 4. 2006
Public goods, private data: HIV and the history, ethics, and uses of identifiable public health informationAmy L Fairchild
Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
Public Health Rep 122:7-15. 2007
The power to act: two model state statutesDeborah L Erickson
Alaska Division of Public Health, Juneau, Alaska, USA
J Law Med Ethics 30:57-62. 2002..Lessons learned from recent experiences with crafting and introducing legislation based on the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act can prove useful in the future to those working on public health law reform efforts in their states...
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: an isolation order, public health powers, and a global crisisHoward Markel
Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan, Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0725, USA
JAMA 298:83-6. 2007
Tobacco advertising in the United States: a proposal for a constitutionally acceptable form of regulationRonald Bayer
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th St, Ninth Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA
JAMA 287:2990-5. 2002..However, this would be a battle worth engaging, because it might have an impact on tobacco-related morbidity and mortality in the United States...
Ethical challenges in preparing for bioterrorism: barriers within the health care systemMatthew K Wynia
Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1096-102. 2004..Treatment might fail if physicians do not accept their professional duty to treat patients during epidemics. Each of these potential ethical barriers to preparedness must be addressed by physicians and society...
HIV/AIDS, reproductive and sexual health, and the lawLance Gable
Wayne State University Law School, 471 W Palmer, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1779-86. 2008..Laws against sexual violence and exploitation, which perpetuate the spread of HIV and its negative effects, should be enforced. Finally, a human rights framework should inform the drafting of laws to more effectively protect health...
