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Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520941212
  • 0520941217
  • 9781435611481
  • 1435611489
  • 9780520252028
  • 0520252020
  • 9780520253254
  • 0520253256
  • 1433708922
  • 9781433708923
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Searching eyes.DDC classification:
  • 362.10973 22
LOC classification:
  • RA652.2.P82 F35 2007eb
NLM classification:
  • WA 105
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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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.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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