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E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction

Ronald Bayer , Virginia Berridge , Amy L. Fairchild , Wayne Hall

This open access book offers the first in-depth study of the history and current debates surrounding electronic cigarettes comparing the UK, US and Australia. Since their introduction, e-cigarettes have been the subject of much public, media and regulatory attention,...

Shattered Dreams

Ronald Bayer , Gerald M. Oppenheimer

Public Health Ethics

Ronald Bayer , Lawrence O. Gostin , Bruce Jennings , Bonnie Steinbock

Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings...

AIDS Doctors

Ronald Bayer , Gerald M. Oppenheimer

Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered,...