PUBLIC HEALTH LAW: A LAW SCHOOL TEXTBOOK
OUTLINE
(12 pages)
PREFACE
(7 pages)
CHAPTER ONE. AN INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE UNITED
STATES
(58 pages)
A. AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH . . . PAST
1. Cholera in the 19th Century
(excerpts from) Charles Rosenberg, The Cholera Years (1962)
2. Tuberculosis in the 20th Century
George Rosen, Preventive Medicine in the United States 1900-1975 25-36
(1977)
3. Yellow Fever After World War II
Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 135-139 (2003)
4. Anthrax
Leonard A. Cole, The Anthrax Letters vii-ix (2003)
Notes and Questions
B. AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH . . . PRESENT AND FUTURE
Institute of Medicine, The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st
Century 20-32, 46-66 (2003)
Wendy K. Mariner, “Law and Public Health: Beyond Emergency
Preparedness,” 38 Journal of Health Law 251-268 (2005)
Notes and Questions
CHAPTER TWO. PUBLIC HEALTH LAW: BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL
PRINCIPLES APPLICABLE TO STATE EXERCISES OF AUTHORITY IN
MATTERS RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH
(100 pages)
A. INTRODUCTION
B. BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES: PUBLIC HEALTH AND RISKS TO HEALTH
AND SAFETY
1. Twentieth Century Foundations
Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)
Notes and Questions
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905)
Notes and Questions
2. Contemporary Issues: Of Helmets, Seat Belts, Ferrets, Fluoridation
ABATE of Georgia v. Georgia, 137. F. Supp. 2d 1349 (N.D. Ga. 2001)
New York City Friends of Ferrets v City of New York, 876 F. Supp. 529
(S.D.N.Y. 1995)
Notes and Questions
3. Religion and Public Health
State ex rel. Swann v. Pack, 527 S.W.2d 99 (Tenn. 1975), cert. denied,
424 U.S. 954 (1976)
Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)
LePage v. State, 18 P.3d 1177 (Wyoming 2001)
Notes and Questions
C. BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES: THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY
Roe v. Wade
Doe v. Bolton
Notes and Questions
D. BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES: GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION OF
“IMMORAL” BEHAVIOR
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003)
Williams v. Alabama, 378 F. 3d 1232 (11th Cir. 2004)
Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, 440 Mass. 309 798 N.E.2d 941
(2003)
Notes and Questions
CHAPTER THREE. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES: QUARANTINE AND OTHER
LIBERTY-RESTRICTING RESPONSES
(160 pages)
A. INTRODUCTION
B. CASE STUDY: TUBERCULOSIS
1. Containment, Confinement, Class and the Constitution
Green v. Edwards, 164 W. Va. 326, 263 S.E.2d 661 (1980)
City of Newark v. J.S., 279 N.J. Super. 178, 652 A.2d 265 (1993)
Notes and Questions
2. Coercion and the Right to Refuse Treatment
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S.
261(1990)
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
Notes and Questions
C. CASE STUDY: HIV/AIDS
City of New York v. New Saint Mark’s Bath, 130 Misc. 2d 911, 497
N.Y.S.2d 979 (1986)
Wendy Parmet, “AIDS and Quarantine: The Revival of an Archaic
Doctrine,” 14 Hofstra Law Review 53, 55-71 (1985)
History of Quarantine
Notes and Questions
D. CASE STUDY: SARS
Fact Sheet: Basic Information About SARS (CDC January 2004)
(excerpts from) Mark A Rothstein, et. al, Isolation: Lessons Learned
From SARS (2003)
George J. Annas, “The Statue of Security: Post-9/11 Epidemics,” 8 Journal
of Health Law 319, 331-342 (2005)
Notes and Questions
E. CASE STUDY: INFLUENZA
John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest
Plague in History 2-5 (2004)
(excerpt from) Department of Health and Human Services, Pandemic
Influenza Plan (January 2006)
Notes and Questions
Centers for Disease Control, Proposed Quarantine Regulations,
Solicitation of Comments (2005)
Notes and Questions
F. REMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOR BIOTERRORISM AND EPIDEMICS
1. Planning for Public Health Emergencies: Policy and Administrative
Aspects
Thomas V. Inglesby, “Lessons From TOPOFF,” 116 Public Health Reports
64-68 (2001)
Notes and Questions
Joseph Barbera, et al., “Large-Scale Quarantine Following Biological
Terrorism in the United States,” 286 JAMA 2711 (2001)
Notes and Questions
2. Planning for Public Health Emergencies: Legal Aspects
Center for Law and Public Health, Model State Emergency Health Powers
Act (2001)
Kenneth R. Wing, “Policy Choices and Model Acts: Preparing for the Next
Public Health Emergency,” 13 Health Matrix 71 (2003)
Lawrence O. Gostin, “When Terrorism Threatens Health: How Far
Limitations on Personal and Economic Liberties Justified?” 55 Florida
Law Review 1105, 1159-69 (2003)
Oregon Revised Statutes §§ 401.654, 401.657 (selected provisions
related to health services in a public health emergency)
(Provisions of) The Federal Volunteer Protection Act, 42 U.S.C. §§
14503, 14504
Notes and Questions
CHAPTER FOUR. PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE
(107 pages)
A. INTRODUCTION
B.
OVERVIEW OF PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE
Ruth L. Berkelman, Donna F. Stroup & James W. Buehler, Public Health
Surveilance, in 2 Oxford Textbook of Public Health 759, 759-60 (Roger
Detels, James McEwen, Robert Beaglehole & Heizo Tanaka, eds., 4th ed.
2002)
Notes and Questions
C. COMPULSORY REPORTING OF MEDICAL INFORMATION
Whalen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589 (1977)
Notes and Questions
Planned Parenthood v. Danforth, 428 U.S. 52, 80-81 (1976)
Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
476 U.S. 747 (1986)
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)
Notes and Questions
Northwestern Memorial Hospital v. Ashcroft, 362 F. 3d 923 (7th Cir.
2004)
Aid for Women v. Foulston, 427 F. Supp. 1093 (D. Kan. 2006)
Notes and Questions
D. CONTAGIOUS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
New York State Society of Surgeons v. Axelrod, 77 N.Y.2d 677, 572
N.E.2d 605, 569 N.Y.S.2d 922 (1991)
Notes and Questions
E. PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND RESEARCH
Amy L. Fairchild, “Dealing with Humpty Dumpty: Research,Practice, and
the Ethics of Public Health Surveillance,” 31 Journal of Law, Medicine,
and Ethics 615, 615-620 (Winter 2003)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): Standards
for privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, 45 C.F.R.
§ 164.508-512
Notes and Questions
F. ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES: CANCER AND OTHER CHRONIC DISEASES
United States v. Westinghouse Electric Corp., 638 F.2d 570 (3d Cir.
1980)
National Program of Cancer Registries, 42 U.S.C. § 208e
Wendy K. Mariner, “Mission Creep: Public Health Surveillance and
Medical Privacy,” ___ Boston University Law Review
(forthcoming
2006)
Notes and Questions
In the Matter of the Proposed Rules of the Department of Health related
to the Collection of Administrative Billing Data, Report of the
Administrative Law Judge
http://www.oah.state.mn.us/cases/healthdata/090015017.rr (Dec. 2, 2002)
Wendy K. Mariner, “Medicine and Public Health: Crossing Boundaries,”
__ Journal of Healthcare Law & Policy __ (forthcoming 2006)
Notes and Questions
G. Genetic Testing and DNA- or Bio-banking
Patricia A. Roche, “Genetic Information and Testing,” Encyclopedia of
Privacy (William G. Staples, ed. forthcoming)
Notes and Questions
Patricia A. Roche, National Health Identifiers in U.S. and Australia:
CMS Uniform Provider Identifier in Encyclopedia of Privacy (William G.
Staples, ed. forthcoming)
CHAPTER FIVE. TOBACCO, SMOKING, AND THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH
(112 pages)
A. INTRODUCTION
Richard Kluger, Ashes to Ashes xi-xix (1996)
B. THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF SMOKING AND TOBACCO
1. The Effects of Smoking
Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services,
“Executive Summary,” The Health Consequences of Smoking 8-17 (2004)
Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, “The
Impact of Smoking on Disease and the Benefits of Smoking
Reduction,” The Health Consequences of Smoking 858-872 (2004)
2. The Effects of Smoking on Others
Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services,
Executive Summary, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure
to Tobacco Smoke (2006)
Notes and Questions
C. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO REGULATE SMOKING AND TOBACCO USE
Austin v. Tennessee, 179 U.S. 343 (1900)
D.A.B.E. v. City of Toledo, 393 F.3d 692 (6th Cir. 2005)
Lorillard Tobacco v. Reilly, 533 U.S. 525 (2001)
FDA V. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 529 U.S. 120 (2000)
Notes and Questions
D. LITIGATION AND ITS EFFECT ON PUBLIC POLICY CONCERNING SMOKING AND
TOBACCO USE
Carter v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 778 So. 2d 932 (Fla.),
cert. denied, 533 U.S. 950 (2001)
Haglund v. Phillip Morris, Inc., 446 Mass. 744, __ N.E.2d __ (2006)
Notes and Questions
A Brief Summary of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement Between the
States and Tobacco Manufacturers
American Legacy Foundation v. Lorillard Tobacco Co., 886 A.2d 1 (Del.
Ct. Chan. 2005)
Notes and Questions
E. THE IMPACT OF SHIFTING NORMS ON THE CONCEPT OF “PRIVATE” CONDUCT
Miami v. Kurtz, 653 So. 2d 1025 (Fla. 1995)
Notes and Questions
Appendix to Chapter Five: World Health Assembly Resolution 56.1
CHAPTER SIX. PUBLIC HEALTH PROMOTION AND EDUCATION:
ENCOURAGING HEALTHY PERSONAL BEHAVIOR
(148 pages)
A. INTRODUCTION
B. DEFINING RISKS TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THEIR CONTROL
Daniel I. Wikler, “Persuasion and Coercion for Health: Ethical Issues
in Government Efforts to Change Life-Styles,” 56 Milbank Memorial Fund
Quarterly 303 (1978)
Christ’s Bride Ministries, Inc. v. Southeastern Pennsylvania
Transportation Authority, 148 F.3d 242 (3d Cir. 1998)
Aaron Wildavsky & Karl Dake, “Theories of Risk Perception,” 119
Daedalus—Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 41, 4245, 48-51 (1990)
Leonard H. Glantz, Control of Personal Behavior and the Informed
Consent Model (2006)
Notes on Defining Risks and Defending Responses
C. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
Regina Kilmon v. Maryland; Kelly Lynn Cruz v. Maryland, 2006 Md. LEXIS
479 (MD 2006)
Notes on Controlled Substances Policy
Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67 (2001)
Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of
Pottawatomie County v. Earls, 536 U.S. 822 (2002)
Notes on Drug Testing: Special Needs and Law Enforcement
Gonzales v. Raich, 125 S. Ct. 2195 (2005)
Notes on Federalism and Drug Policy
D. CASE STUDY: OBESITY
Surgeon General, A Call to Action to Prevent & Decrease Overweight &
Obesity 1-17 (2001)
United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization/World Health
Organization, Joint Report on Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of
Chronic Diseases 61-71 (2003)
Kelly Brownell & Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight 3-13 (2004)
Notes
Pelman v. McDonald’s, 237 F. Supp. 2d 512 (2003)(Pelman I)
Pelman v. McDonald’s, 2003 WL 2205277 (S.D.N.Y.)(Pelman II)
Pelman v. McDonald’s Corp., 396 F.3d 508 (2d Cir. 2005)(Pelman III)
Richard A. Daynard, P. Tim Howard, & Cara L. Wilking, “Private
Enforcement: Litigation as a Tool to Prevent Obesity,” 25 Journal of
Public Health Policy 408 (2004)
Cheryl L. Hayne, Patricia A. Moran, & Mary M. Ford, “Regulating
Environments to Reduce Obesity,” 25 Journal of Public Health Policy
391-99 (2005)
The California Childhood Obesity Prevention Act of 2005
Rogan Kerch & James A. Morone, “Obesity, Courts, & The New Politics of
Public Health,” 30 Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law 839 (2005)
Notes
CHAPTER SEVEN. FIREARMS, GUN CONTROL AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(85 pages)
A. INTRODUCTION
B. THE IMPACT OF GUNS ON HEALTH AND SAFETY
David Hemenway, Private Guns Public Health 1-7 (2004)
Jon S. Vernick & Julie Samia Mair, “How the law Affects Gun Policy in
the United States: Law As Intervention Or Obstacle to Prevention,” 30
Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 692, 693-695 (2002)
John R. Lott, Jr., More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and GunControl Laws 160-166 (2d ed. 2000)
Notes and Questions
C. CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS TO
REGULATE GUN USE AND OWNERSHIP
United States v. Wright, 117 F.3d 1265 (11th Cir. 1997)
Silveira v. Lockyer, 312 F.3d 1052 (9th Cir. 2002)
Nordyke v. King, 365 F.3d. 1025 (9th Cir. 2004)
Bach v. Pataki, 408 F.3d 75 (2d Cir. 2005)
Notes and Questions
D. THE ROLE OF LITIGATION IN DETERMINING PUBLIC POLICY ON GUN USE AND
OWNERSHIP
1. The Government as Plaintiff
City of Cincinnati v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp., 95 Ohio St. 3d 416, 768
N.E.2d 1136 (2002)
In re Firearms, 126 Cal. App. 4th 959, 24 Cal Rptr. 3d 657 (2005)
2. Private Litigation
Smith v. Bryco Arms, 131 N.M. 87, 33 P.3d 638 (2001)
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, Pub. L. No. 109-92 (2005)
Notes and Questions
CHAPTER EIGHT: BIOTERRORISM
(100 pages)
A. INTRODUCTION
B. 9/11
Craig R. Whitney, “Introduction,” The 9/11 Investigations (2004)
“What to Do? A Global Strategy,”The 9/11 Commission Report: Final
Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States 361-398 (2004).
Notes
C. THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS
Elin Gursky, et al., “Anthrax 2001: Observations of the Medical and
Public Health Response,” 1 Biosecurity and Bioterrorism 97 (2003)
Notes
D. THE SMALLPOX VACCINATION PROGRAM
Institute of Medicine, Committee on Smallpox Vaccination Program
Implementation, The Smallpoz Vaccination Program: Public Health in an
Age of Terrorism (2005). (Excerpt from first committee report, January
16, 2003, at 123-161).
Smallpox Vaccination Program Timeline (edited)
Notes
E. BIOTERROR PREPAREDNESS AND RESEARCH
Hillel Cohen, Robert M. Gould, & Victor W. Sidel, “The Pitfalls of
Bioterrorism Preparedness: The Anthrax and Smallpox Experiences,”
94 Am. J. Public Health 1667 (2004).
U.S. v. Butler, 429 F.3d 140 (5th Cir. 2005), cert. denied
May 15, 2006
Notes
Residents of Boston v. Boston Redevelopment Authority, Suffolk Sup.
Ct., 05-0109-BLS2, July 31, 2006
F. FEDERAL PREPAREDNESS
Public Law 107-188, Public Health Security and Bioterrorism
Preparedness and Response Act of 2002.
United States Department of Homeland Security, National Response Plan,
December 2004
George J. Annas, “The Statue of Security: Human Rights and Post-9/11
Epidemics,” 38 J. Health Law 319 (2005)
Notes
Richard Horton, “A Neglected Counterterrorism Measure,” 358 Lancet 1112
(2001)
Notes and Questions
G. GLOBAL HEALTH
Sofia Gurskin & Daniel Tarantola, Health and Human Rights:
Perspectives on Health and Human Rights 3-57 (2004)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
(1966)
Notes and Questions
Minister of Health v. Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa
Constitutional Court, 2002 (10) BCLR 1033 (CC) (June 7, 2002)
Notes and Questions
Jim Kim & Paul Farmer, “AIDS in 2006—Moving toward One World, One
Hope?” 355 New Eng. J. Med. 645 (2006)
Notes and Questions