Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries : Government Litigation As Public Health Prescription.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Tort System's Early Responses to Product-Caused Diseases -- 1. The Morning after the Consumer Century -- 2. Product-Caused Diseases Confront the Law of the Iron Horse -- 3. The First Wave of Challenges to the Individual Causation Requirement -- Part II: Public Products Litigation as a Response to Regulatory Failure -- 4. The Seeds of Government-Sponsored Litigation -- 5. A Failure of Democratic Processes? Legislative Responses to the Public Health Problems Caused by Tobacco and Lead Pigment -- 6. The Government as Plaintiff: Parens Patriae Actions against Tobacco and Gun Manufacturers -- 7. Judicial Rejection of Recovery for Collective Harm: Public Nuisance and the Rhode Island Paint Litigation -- Part III: A Critique of Public Products Litigation -- 8. Do Litigation Remedies Cure Product-Caused Public Health Problems? -- 9. Impersonating the Legislature: State Attorneys General and Parens Patriae Products Litigation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

A history and critique of public health litigation.

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