Public Health Law for a Brave New World; Book Review: Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint

21 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2009 Last revised: 20 Oct 2015

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Elizabeth Weeks

University of Georgia School of Law

Date Written: January 29, 2009

Abstract

This is book review of Lawrence O. Gostin's new edition of Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2d ed., 2008). A review of a second edition of a book may be somewhat unusual as subsequent editions of already published works typically do not break new ground. But this book is different. Gostin's first edition, published in 2000, established and defined the modern field of public health law. The revised and expanded second edition emerges in the post-9/11, post-Katrina, post-Bush world. Gostin now seeks to apply public health paradigms to social problems beyond the field's traditional realm, offering a comprehensive, encyclopedic source of public health laws and a sound prescription for health care reform.

Keywords: Public health law, health care reform, health policy, civil rights

JEL Classification: D31, H41, I18, I31, J18, K23

Suggested Citation

Leonard, Elizabeth, Public Health Law for a Brave New World; Book Review: Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (January 29, 2009). Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy, Vol. 9, p. 181-201, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1334762

Elizabeth Leonard (Contact Author)

University of Georgia School of Law ( email )

225 Herty Drive
Athens, GA 30602
United States

HOME PAGE: http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/elizabeth-weeks-leonard

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