Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe.
Series: California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, [2007]Copyright date: �2007Description: 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9780520252028 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520252020 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520253254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0520253256 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780520941212 (e-book)
- 362.10973 22
- RA652.2.P82 F35 2007eb
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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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