Public Health Law: A Renaissance

Nutritional Renaissance and Public Health Policy

The science of nutrition has long been entrapped in reductionist interpretation of details, a source of great confusion. However, if nutrition is defined as the integration of countless nutrient factors, metabolic reactions and outcomes, biologically orchestrated as in symphony, its relevance for personal and public health would be less confusing and more productive. This more wholistic interpr...

Public health law: a communitarian perspective.

American society has often favored individual rights disproportionately over the common good. In the aftermath of September 11, there is a need to readjust our criteria to allow for the strengthening of security, public safety, and public health policies. At the same time, we must assure that liberties are not trampled in the service of the common good. Clear criteria are needed to help determi...

International law and public health.

At the beginning of the 21st century there is widespread recognition that national and international health are inseparable. Societies are increasingly turning to innovative and diverse mechanisms of international health cooperation to gain control over the forces that are globalizing public health and related risk factors such as those outlined in this year’s World Health Report (1). Consequen...

Public health and the medical profession in the Renaissance

Teaching health law. Personal reflections on teaching health law in a school of public health.

Peter D. Jacobson Introduction For the past 20 years, I have been teaching various law courses, mostly to public health students. At the RAND Graduate School, I taught two courses to Ph.D. candidates: one on law and social science, and then a course on law and epidemiology (co-listed with the UCLA School of Public Health). Each year since 1996 at the University of Michigan School of Public Heal...