Gerald M. Oppenheimer, PhD, MPH and Ronald Bayer, PhD
The alarm generated by the AIDS epidemic left civil liberties proponents fearful that traditional public health responses might be imposed on newly susceptible or infected populations.
Modern epidemiological science developed as domestic and international infectious disease transmission accompanied industrialization and colonial military expansion.
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