| Reviews |
| - 'The book is very well structured...Personally, the book has enabled me to get a better grip on an issue that I have had in the back of my mind for some years...this book does not provide ready-made answers for public health practitioners stumbling over ethical issues. Rather, it forces readers to reflect on these issues, deepen their understanding and arrive at conclusions that should be
discussed with others.' - Reiner Banken, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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| Description | | - Public health ethics is developing as a new sub-discipline within the broader field of bioethics
- International cast of contributors
- All papers specially written for this volume
- Integration of moral theory and application to real public health examples
- Combination of chapters offering basic overview and chapters offering systematic theoretical analysis
| Public health is an important and fast-developing area of ethical discussion. In this volume a range of issues in public health ethics are explored using the resources of moral theory, political philosophy, philosophy of science, applied ethics, law, and economics.
The twelve original papers presented consider numerous ethical issues arise within public health ethics. To what extent can the
public good or the public interest justify state interventions that impose limits upon the freedom of individuals? What role should the law play in regulating risks? Should governments actively aim to change our preferences about such things as food, smoking or physical exercise? What are public goods, and what role (if any) do they play in public health? To what extent do individuals have moral
obligations to contribute to protecting the community or the public good? Where is it appropriate to concentrate upon prevention rather than cure? Given the fact that we cannot be protected from all harm, what sorts of harm provide a justification for public health action? What limits do we wish to place upon public health activities? How do we ensure that the interests of individuals are not set
aside or forgotten in the pursuit of population benefits?
An excellent line-up of authors from North America, Europe, and the UK tackle these questions. |
Readership: Students and scholars of practical ethics, especially bioethics and healthcare ethics; public health policy-makers
| Contents |
1.
Introduction: Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health
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Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij
2.
The Meaning of 'Public' in 'Public Health'
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Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson
3.
Public Health and Civic Republicanism: Towards an Alternative Framework for Public Health Ethics
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Bruce Jennings
4.
Health of the People: The Highest Law?
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Lawrence O. Gostin and Lesley Stone
5.
Population-level Bioethics: Mapping a New Agenda
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Daniel Wikler and Dan W. Brock
6.
Parental Choice and Expert Knowledge in the Debate about MMR and Autism
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Tom Sorell
7.
Ethical Issues in Applying Quantitative Models for Setting Priorities in Prevention
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Dan W. Brock
8.
Reasonable Limits to Public Health Demands
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Mariëtte van den Hoven
9.
Vertical Transmission of Infectious Diseases and Genetic Disorder: Are the Medical and Public Responses Consistent?
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Jay A. Jackson, Margaret P. Battin, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Leslie Francis, James Mason, and Charles B. Smith
10.
Herd Protection as a Public Good: Vaccination and Our Obligations to Others
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Angus Dawson
11.
Tobacco Discouragement: A Non-paternalistic Approach
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Marcel Verweij
12.
Informed Consent and the Expansion of Newborn Screening
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Niels Nijsingh
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Angus Dawson, Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University and
Marcel Verweij, Ethics Institute, Utrecht University
| Contributors:Margaret P. Battin, MFA, PhD, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of philosophy at the University of Utah, and Adjunct Professor in the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Jeffrey R. Botkin, MD, MPH, is Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor of Medicine for the Division of
Medical Ethics in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, and Associate Vice President for Research Integrity at the University of Utah.
Dan W. Brock is the Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Social Medicine, the Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School, and the Director of the Harvard
University Program in Ethics and Health.
Angus Dawson is currently Senior Lecturer in Ethics & Philosophy in the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University in the UK.
Leslie Francis, PhD, JD, is Professor of Philosophy and the Alfred C. Emery professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, and Adjunct Professor in the Division of Medical Ethics,
Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Lawrence O. Gostin is Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Georgetown University; Professor of Law and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University; and Director, Center for Law and the Public's Health (A WHO and CDC Collaborating Center).
Mariëtte van den Hoven is researcher/teacher at the Ethics Institute,
Utrecht University and co-ordinator of the Netherlands Research School in Practical Philosophy.
Jay A. Jacobson, MD, is Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics, and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at LDS Hospital and the Department of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Bruce Jennings is Director of the Center for Humans
and Nature in New York, NY and senior consultant at The Hastings Center in Garrison, NY. He also teaches at the Yale University School of Public Health.
James O. Mason, MD, MPH, is an infectious disease specialist trained at the University of Utah who also holds a Master of Public Health from Harvard. He became Director of the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1983.
Niels Nijsingh is a PhD student at the Ethics Institute at Utrecht University.
Charles B. Smith, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Tom Sorell is Professor of Philosophy at Essex University, UK.
Lesley Stone, JD, is a Zuckerman
Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Marcel Verweij is senior researcher and lecturer at the Ethics Institute, Utrecht University.
Daniel Wikler, Ph.D., is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics in the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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