Populations, public health, and the law / Wendy E. Parmet.

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xii, 292 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Public health and the population perspective -- Public health and American law -- Towards a population-based legal analysis : the Supreme Beef case -- Population health and federalism : whose job is it? -- Individual rights, population health, and due process -- A right to die? : further reflections on due process rights -- The First Amendment and the obesity epidemic -- A population-based health law -- Tort law : a population approach to private law -- Globalizing population-based legal analysis -- The future for population-based legal analysis -- Table of U.S. cases.