Public Health and Law: Past and Future Visions
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
6-2003
ISSN
0361-6878
Publisher
Duke University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
What is public health law and why does it matter? Answering those questions is harder than it may appear. The field of public health itself is wide ranging enough to make most general descriptions either incomplete or soporific. Public health law, the applied field of law that draws upon an equally extensive range of bodies of law that govern public health concerns, presents a similar, but distinct, challenge. This essay examines how public health has outgrown its traditional self-definition and considers what this means for the role of law applied to public health. In particular, the essay argues that conflating the goals of public health and law mistakenly undermines the independent value of each.
Recommended Citation
Wendy K. Mariner,
Public Health and Law: Past and Future Visions
,
in
28
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
525
(2003).
Available at:
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-28-2-3-525
