{"id":1729,"date":"2008-10-17T11:56:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T11:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:44:03","slug":"new-book-public-health-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"New book: Public Health Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health Law, first published in 2000, has been widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law. Lawrence O. Gostin&#8217;s definition was based on the notion that government bears a responsibility for advancing the health and well-being of the general population, and the book developed a rich understanding of the government&#8217;s powers and duties while showing law to be an effective tool in the realization of a healthier and safer population. In this second edition, Gostin analyzes the major health threats of our times, from emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism to chronic diseases caused by obesity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/pages\/11023.php\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health Law, first published in 2000, has been widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law. Lawrence O. Gostin&#8217;s definition was based on the notion that government bears a responsibility for advancing the health and well-being of the general population, and the book developed a rich understanding of the government&#8217;s powers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}