Infectious disease : policy, law, and regulation / James T. O'Reilly and Victoria Wells Wulsin, MD.

Part I. Understanding the background. 1. Introduction
2. Background and history
Part II. Understanding liability litigation. 3. Liability litigation
4. Hospital liabilities: infection risks and hospital litigation
Part III. Understanding regulation. 5. Constitutional issues
6. Regulatory systems affecting infection control
7. Reporting, quarantine, and tracing
8. Drugs and related products: responding to infections
9. International issues on infectious disease
Part IV. Understanding workplace and commercial issues. 10. Infection conflicts and the workplace
11. Commercial claims relating to infectious disease
Part V. Understanding the science issues. 12. The basic science of infections
13. How infections affect humans
Conclusions.