Infectious Disease: Policy, Law & Regulation

Table of Contents
Preface
PART 1:
UNDERSTANDING THE BACKGROUND
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Background
Part 2:
UNDERSTANDING LIABILITY LITIGATION
Chapter 3
Liability Litigation
Chapter 4
Hospital Liabilities

Part 3:
UNDERSTANDING REGULATION
Chapter 5
Constitutional Issues
Chapter 6
Regulatory Systems Affecting Infection Control
Chapter 7
Reporting, Quarantine & Tracing

Chapter 8
Drugs & Related Products Responding to Infections
Chapter 9
Regulatory Systems Affecting Infection Control
Part 4:
UNDERSTANDING WORKPLACE & COMMERCIAL ISSUES
Chapter 10
Infection Conflicts & The Workplace
Chapter 11
Commercial Claims Relating to Infectious Diseases
Part 5:
UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE ISSUES, By Dr. V.W. Wulsin
Chapter 12
The Basic Science of Infections
Chapter 13
How Infections Affect Humans
Conclusion
Appendices

DEDICATION

This Book Is Dedicated

With Great Respect, Admiration & Affection
To
Mary Skelly, M.S.,
of Dublin, Ireland,
For Her Enthusiastic & Persistent Efforts To
Prevent & Defeat Infection
To Make This a Better World

PREFACE

When our publisher suggested this text in late 2014, I embraced the project eagerly, as my students in the
College of Medicine were awed by those speakers who came to our Public Health Policy class from the
Ebola war front lines in Africa. I recognized that many of my law students who had endured the study
of antibiotics regulation in our Food & Drug Law courses would be watching as the industrial effort to
scale up clinical trials of Ebola-killing agents reached a crescendo. And like many texts that can be
ripped from the headlines, I realized that the quality and staying power of any book requires a patient
transcendence of urgent headlines, going beyond the days news into the crucial study of why and
how questions.
This book could not have been attempted without the diligent sharing of wisdom by a true thought leader
and active advocate for global health, Dr. Victoria Wells Wulsin, M.D., Dr.P.H. Vic epitomizes the quality
of servant leadership that makes a great positive difference in the world. We all owe her thanks for her
fine efforts against HIV and STD infections in Kenya as well as in America. Her several chapters of
wisdom herein are very insightful. Words do not adequately reflect all that we owe her for her great
efforts to live her professional calling, to help save real lives of real children and adults. The people of
Kenya and the people of Greater Cincinnati join us in admiration for Dr. Wulsins many contributions to
global public health.
Special thanks are due for the excellent and timely research work of our team mates, Kylie Conley, Perry
Thompson, Marina Schemmel, and Captain Joseph Jordan of the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
Our College of Medicine research team benefited from the diligent work of Aaren Kettelhut, Kristen
Carpenter, Parthib Das, and Mahima Venkatesh of our MPH program. Their long hours of effort made this
a much better book, and we acknowledge their fine contributions to this project. Our law librarians aided
the research immeasurably, and I thank Jim Hart, Mary Jenkins, Laura Dixon Caldwell and Lauren
Morrison.
This is neither the first nor the last book written on Infectious Disease. We hope that the reader will
embrace some of the learnings from this text and build upon them, as we have developed our efforts along
the paths trod by others before us. Please take this knowledge and apply it to help our global neighbors.
Comments are welcomed to james.oreilly@uc.edu or joreilly@fuse.net.
Prof. Jim OReilly
June 2015