Public Health Ethics Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice

Name: Public Health Ethics Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice
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ISBN: 9780521689366

ISBN-10: 0521689368

ISBN-13: 9780521689366

Edition: 2011

Authors: Angus Dawson

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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 field's central concepts and explores the key and controversial issues arising.

Book details

List price: $51.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of contributors


Preface


Acknowledgements



Concepts


Resetting the parameters: public health as the foundation for public health ethics



Health, disease and the goal of public health




Selective reproduction, eugenics and public health




Risk and precaution




Issues



Smoking, health and ethics




Infectious disease control




Population screening




Vaccination ethics




Environment, ethics and public health: the climate change dilemma




Public health research ethics: is non-exploitation the new principle for population-based research ethics?




Equity and population health: toward a broader bioethics agenda




Health inequities



Index