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Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America
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Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America

Amy L. Fairchild

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Preface: the politics of privacy, the politics of surveillance
Introduction: surveillance and the landscape of privacy in twentieth-century America
Opening battles: tuberculosis and the foundations of surveillance
Raising the veil: syphilis and secrecy
The right to know: detection, reporting, and prevention of occupational disease
The right to be counted: confronting the "menace of cancer"
Who shall count the little children? from "crippled kiddies" to birth defects
AIDS, activism, and the vicissitudes of democratic privacy
Counting all kids: immunization registries and the privacy of parents and children
Panoptic visions and stubborn realities in a new era of privacy
Conclusion: an enduring tension.

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Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America by Amy L. Fairchild. ISBN 9780520253254. Published by University of California Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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