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Searching eyes privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America

Title
Searching eyes [electronic resource] : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe.
Author
Fairchild, Amy L.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Bayer, Ronald.
  • Colgrove, James Keith.
  • Wolfe, Daniel, 1960-
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 342 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18
Uniform Title
Searching eyes (Online)
Alternative Title
Searching eyes (Online)
Subject
  • Public health surveillance
  • Privacy, Right of
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-327) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2007001053
OCLC
ssj0000242721
Author
Fairchild, Amy L.
Title
Searching eyes [electronic resource] : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America / Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, c2007.
Series
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 18
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-327) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Bayer, Ronald.
Colgrove, James Keith.
Wolfe, Daniel, 1960-
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