The politics of AIDS: compulsory state powers, public health, and civil liberties.

The politics of prevention: anti-vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England.

THE FRAMING OF THE LAW ON COMPULSORY VACCINATION AND THE ORGANIZATION OF OPPOSITION The coming of compulsory health legislation in mid-nineteenth-century England was a political innovation that extended the powers of the state effectively for the first time over areas of traditional civil liberties in the name of public health. This development appears most strikingly in two fields of legislati...

Bioterrorism or Avian Influenza: California, The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, and Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Emergency

The syphilis epidemic and its relation to AIDS.

This article presents an overview of the history of medical and public health responses to syphilis in the 20th-century United States and briefly evaluates the relevance and significance of these approaches for the AIDS epidemic. The parallels are numerous: they relate to science, public health, civil liberties, and social attitudes concerning sexually transmitted infection. The strengths and l...

Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Performance of Government Projects - Finance & Development - March 1998 - Lant Pritchett and Daniel Kaufmann

MPIRICAL analysis demonstrates that the extent of civil liberties in a country affects the performance of a government’s investment projects. This finding contributes to accumulating evidence that the degree to which citizens’ “voices” in the public sphere are repressed or are allowed to be “heard” has an important influence on whether the accountability necessary for government efficacy will b...

مطالعه تطبیقی مسئولیت ناشی از خون های آلوده در نظام حقوقی ایران و فرانسه

The importance of law and the responsibility of producers of blood toward the recipients can best be seen in the tragic event for “Hemophiliacs” patients. In fact, third tragedy is full of highly important judicial documents that cover different earaches of law, as the law of civil responsibility has been the basis of the trial. The civil responsibility of the state toward the citiz...