Ebola, quarantine, and the law

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-6

  Rothstein, Mark A ^a  

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Indexed keywords

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARDS; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMPLOYMENT; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUARANTINE; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923043118     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hast.411     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat 316, 405, 4 L.Ed. 579 (1819).
2. 42 U.S.C. § 264(b).
3. 42 C.F.R. Part 70-71.
4. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).
5. Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur v. Louisiana State Board of Health, 186 U.S. 380 (1902).
6. Greene v. Edwards, 263 S.E.2d 661 (W. Va. 1980). Accord, Levin v. Adalberto, 67 Cal. Rptr. 3d 277 (Cal. Ct. App. 2007)
7. City of Newark v. J.S., 652 A.2d 265 (NJ Super. Ct. Law Div. 1993).
8. "Nurse Quarantined in N.J. Criticizes the Way She Has Been Treated, " CBS News, October 25, 2014, at http://cbsnews.com.
9. M. A. Rothstein et al., Quarantine and Isolation: Lessons Learned from SARS: A Report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 137 (2003), http://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11429.
10. M. Sandora and A. Hartocollis, "In New York, Protections Offered for Medical Workers Joining Ebola Fight, " New York Times, October 31, 2014.
11. Del. Code Ann. tit 20, § 3136(6)(d) (2005)
12. Iowa Code § 139A.13A (2007)
13. Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-129d (2002)
14. Maine Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 26, § 875 (2005)
15. Md. Code Ann., Health-Gen. I § 18-906(e) (2009)
16. Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, § 95 (1907)
17. Minn. Stat. § 144.4196 (2009)
18. N.M. Stat. Ann. § 12-10A-16 (2003)
19. S.C. Code Ann. §§ 44-4-530 (2008
20. Utah Code Ann. § 26-6b-3.3(4)(a) (2008).
21. M. A. Rothstein, "Rethinking the Meaning of Public Health, " Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 30, no. 1 (2002): 144-49.
22. See M. A. Rothstein, "From SARS to Ebola: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Modern Quarantine, " Indiana Health Law Review 12, no. 1 (2015, forthcoming).