The continuing tensions between individual rights and public health. Talking point on public health versus civil liberties

EMBO Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1099-1103

  Bayer, Ronald ^a  

^a Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHOLERA; CIVIL RIGHTS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LIFESTYLE; MEASLES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERTUSSIS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMALLPOX; SMOKING; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHUS; VACCINATION; WELFARE;

HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 36749012931     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401134     Document Type: Article

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