The use of law and policy to limit tobacco consumption illustrates one of the greatest triumphs of public health in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as one of its most fundamental failures. Overall decreases in tobacco consumption throughout the developed world...

This article, authored early in the epidemic, focuses on the use of blood tests to identify individuals who have been infected with the HIV virus through individual testing and population screening efforts. The authors argue that proposed screening programs should be subjected to ethical...

In the closing decades of the 20th century, a broadly shared view took hold that the stigmatization of those who were already vulnerable provided the context within which diseases spread, exacerbating morbidity and mortality by erecting barriers between caregivers and those who were sick and by...