Law in public health practice
R A Goodman, M A Rothstein, R E Hoffman, W López, G W Matthews. Oxford University Press, 2003. (Pp 462; price not stated). ISBN 0-19-514871-1
The aim of this book, written jointly by a variety of law and public health practice specialist authors—who represent the ranks of the legal and public health practitioners in the United States of America—is to clarify the principles of law as they bear on the practice of public health.
The reader is invited to improve their understanding of the legal principles underlying public health practice; that is to say how law may be applied to improve the …
