Public Health Ethics : Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice /
"Public health ethics is a discipline concerned with the health of the public or a population as a whole, rather than focusing on the individual. This book introduces a number of this new field's central concepts and explores the key and controversial issues arising. Topics covered include...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Concepts: 1. Resetting the parameters: public health as the foundation for public health ethics / Angus Dawson; 2. Health, disease and the goal of public health / Bengt Brülde; 3. Selective reproduction, eugenics and public health / Stephen Wilkinson; 4. Risk and precaution / Stephen John
- Section 2. Issues: 5. Smoking, health and ethics / Richard Ashcroft; 6. Infectious disease control / Marcel Verweij; 7. Population screening / Ainsley Newson; 8. Vaccination ethics / Angus Dawson; 9. Environment, ethics and public health: the climate change dilemma / Anthony Kessel and Carolyn Stephens; 10.dt Public health research ethics: is non-exploitation the new principle for population-based research ethics? / John McMillan; 11. Equity and population health: toward a broader bioethics agenda / Norman Daniels; 12. Health inequities / James Wilson.