Kyle Harrison
to-read
Public Health Law
Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint
- Author
- Lawrence O. Gostin
- Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 768
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Gostin’s standard treatment of the legal architecture of public health — police power, the limits on it, and the duties it creates.
Where I saw it: In the reply thread to @WillManidis’s question, “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read”; the full set of replies lives on what is the single best book… (tweet). It was listed there as “Public Health Law”.
Connections
- Public Health — The field.
- Regulation — The mechanism the book is about.
- Governance — Where the argument sits.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.