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- 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
- 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.
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- Added Author
Bayer, Ronald.
Colgrove, James Keith.
Wolfe, Daniel, 1960-