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.