[...]... third aim of this book is to examine the legal framework of particular issues of public health from a global perspective, recognising that these public health concerns and public health initiatives are influenced by law at many levels The delineation of the different strands of law and regulation is important for any examination of the role of law in determining, supporting or inhibiting health Themes... private health or medicine so that a body of public health law can be identified, with a view to evaluation of that law as a mechanism to support the attainment of health The identification of public health and public health law must recognise that public health cannot be isolated from the political, cultural, economic and social environment in which it operates The second aim is to explore the spectrum of. .. Rather, it is recognised that public health regulation and the use of law as a tool for the attainment of public health operate at global, regional, national and personal levels, just as responsibility for health lies on international, regional and national bodies and on the individual citizens who are the subjects of health Aims The aims of this book are threefold The first is to define public health. .. branch of the practice of medicine It is certainly the case that law has engaged with the practice of medicine and has reached an (uneasy) compromise with the medical profession on power to control the physical body and the morality of citizens However, law has paid scant attention to matters of public health on the premise that public health is more properly accountable to politics and economics and. .. economics and so falls outside the domain of law The tensions between private and public law, and between medicine and public health, are examined both generally and in relation to particular issues of health throughout this book Another binary inherent in health and medicine, as well as in law, is that of the normal/other In medicine, medical science determines for us the normal body, normal bodily... domestic law Health provision has seen a similar divide between medicine and public health While it might seem to the disinterested onlooker that the practice of medicine, characterised by the individual doctor/patient relationship, should operate as a subset of an all-embracing policy of public health, the politics of medicine both within Britain and elsewhere have been such that public health has... in public health This will take into account a consideration of the relationships which citizens of the world have with their local environment, with other citizens, with the political State and as citizens of an increasingly globalised world The legal relationships between agents of public health, government and non-government, at national, regional and international levels will also be relevant The. .. Robyn Martin and Linda Johnson This is a book about law and public health, but not about public health law as it has been traditionally understood The book does not focus on statutory measures for the containment of disease (although they are referred to when relevant) Nor does it focus on national powers and duties and the implementation of national policies on health harms (although these are referred... legal theory’, in Fineman, M and Thomadsen, N, At the Boundaries of Law, 1991, New York: Routledge See also Cheah, P, Fraser, D and Gribch, J (eds), Thinking Through the Body of the Law, 1996, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin Eg, in the context of the law of nuisance, in relation to some judicial review applications, and particularly in relation to hearings to determine in advance the legality of medical... Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1989 44 Public Health (Prevention and Treatment of Disease) Act 1913 77 Public Health (Regulation as to Food) Act 1907 77 Public Health (Tuberculosis) Act 1921 77 Public Health (Water) Act 1978 77 Public Health Act 1848 76 Public Health Act 1875 76, 77 Public Health Act . y0 w0 h1" alt="" LAW AND THE PUBLIC DIMENSION OF HEALTH Cavendish Publishing Limited C P Cavendish Publishing Limited C P London • Sydney LAW AND THE PUBLIC DIMENSION OF HEALTH Edited by Robyn. 9HE, UK, without the permission in writing of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Martin, Robyn Law and the public dimension of health 1 Public health laws, international I. in health law in China. She has also published on issues of law and gender, and criminology. Professor Robyn Martin is Professor of Law at the University of Hertfordshire, and has taught at the