Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration

M.F. Verweij (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2010
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-5605-4 (ISBN)

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Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration is a study of ethical questions regarding mass screening, vaccination, and health policy programmes. These interventions aim to enhance public health but may also constrain personal autonomy and cause harm, and influence our moral views. So far, these issues have hardly been subject to systematic ethical analysis. This study aims to fill this gap by providing an overview of moral problems in preventive medicine and by explicating norms for good practice. Throughout the book it is argued that some moral concerns about prevention - namely concerns about medicalization - cannot be adequately grasped in terms of strict and binding moral norms. Various moral concepts and types of norms `beyond obligation' are explored and developed in order to give practical meaning to these rather vague concerns. In this way the book contributes to applied ethics as well as to ethical theory. It is of interest to professionals in public health and preventive medicine and to scholars in applied ethics and moral philosophy.

1 Introduction.- I: Preventive Medicine: Moral Problems and Moral Norms.- 2 What is preventive medicine?.- 3 Medical-ethical dimensions of preventive medicine.- 4 The prevention paradox and tensions between private and public interests.- 5 Medicalization as a moral problem for preventive Medicine.- II Obligation and Beyond.- 6 The concept of duty and obligation.- 7 Medicalization, moral obligations and beyond.- 8 Beyond obligation.- 9 Conclusions.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	"International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine " ; 4
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 192 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	90-481-5605-X / 904815605X
ISBN-13	978-90-481-5605-4 / 9789048156054
Zustand	Neuware