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James Colgrove, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. His research examines the relationship between individual rights and the collective well-being and the social, political, and legal processes through which public health policies have been mediated in American history. He is the author of State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America (University of California Press, 2006) and co-author, with Amy Fairchild and Ronald Bayer, of Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America (University of California Press, 2007). His articles have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine; American Journal of Public Health, Science, Health Affairs; Bulletin of the History of Medicine; and the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. He is currently a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics.

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