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An Overview Of Public Health In The New Millenium: Individual Liberty Vs. Public Safety, Dorothy Puzio
An Overview Of Public Health In The New Millenium: Individual Liberty Vs. Public Safety, Dorothy Puzio
Journal of Law and Health
This article explores the tensions between creating an effective public health system that would be able to respond to and protect against any public health threat, and protecting individuals against unnecessary intrusions on their civil liberties. It then considers approaches to this issue that might best strike a balance in a democratic society. While many Americans may recognize and even accept that greater security would entail some intrusion into individual rights, there is no formula for striking the appropriate balance. This article attempts to arrive at a workable framework by examining how the United States' public health system works. This …
Joining A Cult: Religious Choice Or Psychological Aberration, Dena S. Davis
Joining A Cult: Religious Choice Or Psychological Aberration, Dena S. Davis
Journal of Law and Health
In this article, I will analyze the different theories about "cult" membership and conversion, specifically focusing upon whether or not conversions to cults ought to be respected by the law in the same way that the law respects conversion to be respected by the law in the same way that the law respects conversion to and membership in, mainstream religions. In section II, I attempt (unsuccessfully) to define a "cult". In section III, I discuss the civil liberties issues surrounding "cults" and the public furor they have engendered. In section IV, I discuss the different and competing theories about why …