Searching eyes
Subtitle: privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America
By: Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, James Colgrove ; with Daniel Wolfe.
Contributors: Bayer, Ronald.; Colgrove, James Keith.; Wolfe, Daniel, 1960-
Series: California/Milbank books on health and the public
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520252028; 9780520253254
Subjects: Public health surveillance; Privacy, Right of; Population Surveillance -- United States; Confidentiality -- United States; Health Policy -- history -- United States; Privacy -- United States; Public Health Practice -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: the politics of privacy, the politics of surveillance; title: Surveillance and the landscape of privacy in twentieth century America; title: Opening battles: tuberculosis and the foundations of surveillance; title: Raising the veil: syphilis and secrecy; title: The right to know: detection, reporting, and prevention of occupational disease; title: The right to be counted: confronting the "menace of cancer"; title: Who shall count the little children? from "crippled kiddies" to birth defects; title: AIDS, activism, and the vicissitudes of democratic privacy; title: Counting all kids: immunization registries and the privacy of parents and children; title: Panoptic visions in a new era of privacy; title: Conclusion: an enduring tension.