Leonard Glantz

Leonard Glantz, JD, is the Associate Dean for Academic affairs, Emeritus Professor in Health Law, Policy & Management, and a faculty member in the Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health. He is the author of numerous, books, articles and briefs on a wide array of health law issues. He is particularly interested in the constitutional issues raised by public health interventions, privacy, the rights of children, the regulation of research with human subjects, and mental health law.

Debate Essay

Moralism, Public Health, and Supervised Injection Facilities

July 16, 2017

Moralism is often the enemy of public health. “Moralism” is not the same as morality. By moralism I mean the practice of judging other’s behaviors based on one’s own values for determining right and wrong. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary lists “prudishness” “puritanism” and “nice-nellyism” as synonyms for moralism. Synonyms for “morality are “decency, goodness, honesty and

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"Prepping a rig" - preparing heroin for injection

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Moralism, Public Health, and Supervised Injection Facilities

July 15, 2017

Leonard Glantz compares two health policy decisions based on moralism that led to a failure in harm reduction, arguing that moralism undermines the efforts of public health.

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