Chapter 5 Is Preventive Detention Morally Worse than Quarantine?

Preventive detention shares many features with the quarantine measures sometimes employed in the context of infectious disease control. Both interventions involve imposing constraints on freedom of movement and association. Both interventions are standardly undeserved: in quarantine, the detained in...

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Main Author: Douglas, Thomas (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Hart Publishing 2019
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