RT Book, Section
A1 Richards,III, Edward P.
A1 Rathbun, Katharine C.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141962444
T1 Public Health Law
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141962444
RD 2024/04/20
AB Core  public  health—food  and  water  sanitation,  sewage  and  refuse  disposal,  vermin  control,  and  the  management  of  zoonosis  and  communicable  diseases—depends  on  law  as  much  as  on  science.  From  the  Roman  sewers  and  public  water  systems,  and  the  Venetian  40-day  interregnum  for  ships  entering  port,  to  the  recent  eradication  of  smallpox,  public  health  depends  on  the  power  of  the  state.  Public  health  authorities  must  seize  property,  close  businesses,  destroy  animals,  or  involuntarily  treat,  or  even  lock  away,  individuals.  Without  the  coercive  power  of  the  state,  public  health  and  modern  society  would  be  impossible.