Fairchild, Amy L.,

Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe. - 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations. - California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18 . - California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18. .

Includes bibliographical references 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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Public health surveillance.
Privacy, Right of.


Electronic books.

RA652.2.P82 / F35 2007eb

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