The Law of Emergencies This page intentionally left blank The Law of Emergencies Public Health and Disaster Management Nan D. Hunter AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, E-mail:
[email protected] You may also complete your request online via the Elsevier homepage (http://elsevier.com), by selecting “Support & Contact” then “Copyright and Permission” and then “Obtaining Permissions.” Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hunter, Nan D. The law of emergencies: public health and disaster management / Nan D. Hunter. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-85617-547-0 1. Medical emergencies—United States. 2. Emergency management—United States. 3. Public health—Law and Legislation—United States. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Disaster Planning—legislation & jurisprudence—United States. 2. Emergencies—United States. 3. Public Health—legislation & jurisprudence— United States. WA 33 AA1 H946L 2009] RC86.7.H86 2009 616.02'5–dc22 2009017008 British Library Cataloguing-in-Public