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Social Risk And The Transformation Of Public Health Law: Lessons From The Plague Years, Elizabeth B. Cooper
Social Risk And The Transformation Of Public Health Law: Lessons From The Plague Years, Elizabeth B. Cooper
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was the wake-up call that disturbed America from its mid-twentieth century slumber concerning the dangers of communicable diseases. Until AIDS was identified in 1981, most Americans felt largely impervious to health threats posed by viruses or bacteria. Polio, smallpox, and tuberculosis had been brought under control by the "magic bullets" of antibiotics and vaccines." We felt more susceptible to the ravages of cancer or the debilitation of heart disease. But, over the last twenty years, the (re)emergence of serious or life-threatening microbial- based conditions such as Ebola, hantavirus, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and even …
Dc Consortium Of Legal Service Providers: Legal Services 2000 Symposium, Peter B. Edelman
Dc Consortium Of Legal Service Providers: Legal Services 2000 Symposium, Peter B. Edelman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
My main point is to urge you to the see what is possible in the way of what I might call a public health approach to lawyering for the poor. In a public health approach you find something that has polluted the river and you clean it up at its source instead of just treating its victims one by one. In legal and societal terms, when we are discussing why so many children are growing up poor and dying a slow death of disappointment, the challenge is to think about it in a public health way. Of course we cannot …