Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America /
Fairchild, Amy L.
Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe. - Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 342 pages) : illustrations - California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18 . - California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-327) and index.
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.
Presents the history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. This work situates the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context.
9780520941212 0520941217 9781435611481 1435611489 9780520252028 0520252020 9780520253254 0520253256 1433708922 9781433708923
22573/cttszjv9 JSTOR
2021696285
Public health surveillance.
Privacy, Right of.
Confidential communications.
Population Surveillance
Confidentiality
Health Policy--history
Privacy
Public Health Practice--history
Santé publique--Surveillance.
Secret professionnel.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL--Public Health.
MEDICAL--Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Health Care Delivery.
Privacy, Right of.
Public health surveillance.
Meldepflichtige Krankheit
Datenerhebung
Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Datenschutz
United States
USA.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RA652.2.P82 / F35 2007eb
362.10973
WA 105 / F165s 2007
Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe. - Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 342 pages) : illustrations - California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18 . - California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-327) and index.
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.
Presents the history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. This work situates the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context.
9780520941212 0520941217 9781435611481 1435611489 9780520252028 0520252020 9780520253254 0520253256 1433708922 9781433708923
22573/cttszjv9 JSTOR
2021696285
Public health surveillance.
Privacy, Right of.
Confidential communications.
Population Surveillance
Confidentiality
Health Policy--history
Privacy
Public Health Practice--history
Santé publique--Surveillance.
Secret professionnel.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL--Public Health.
MEDICAL--Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Health Care Delivery.
Privacy, Right of.
Public health surveillance.
Meldepflichtige Krankheit
Datenerhebung
Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Datenschutz
United States
USA.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RA652.2.P82 / F35 2007eb
362.10973
WA 105 / F165s 2007