In this Book
- Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
summary
This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease to health authorities inevitably poses questions about the interplay between the imperative to control threats to the public's health and legal and ethical concerns about privacy. Authors Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove situate the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context and show how the changing meaning and significance of privacy have marked the politics and practice of surveillance since the end of the nineteenth century.
Table of Contents
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- Title page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-7
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxi-xxiv
- Part I. The Rise of Surveillance and the Politics of Resistance
- Part II. Extending Surveillance:The Politics of Recognition
- Part III. Surveillance at Century’s End: The Politics of Democratic Privacy
- Conclusion: An Enduring Tension
- pp. 251-256
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520941212
Related ISBN(s)
9780520253254
MARC Record
OCLC
182574130
Pages
368
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No