Do bans help modern public health?

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Lawrence O. Gostin is the O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law and a professor of medicine at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, USA. He is director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC, USA, and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law.

Published: January 2020

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