Pursuing Global Health with Justice: Review of Global Health Law
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Pursuing Global Health with Justice: Review of Global Health Law
In 2000, LawrenceGostin published the first edition ofPublic Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint. With that book, which now has a third edition in progress, Gostin sought to ‘explain why public health law is a coherent field, distinct from other intellectual activities at the intersection of health and law’.1 Gostin’s book played a major role in triggering a ‘renaissance’ of public health law, w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Law and the Biosciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2053-9711
DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsu023