Public Health Ethics

Theory, Policy, and Practice

Ronald Bayer, Lawrence O. Gostin, Bruce Jennings, Bonnie Steinbock (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2006
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518085-5 (ISBN)

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As it seeks to protect the health of populations, public health inevitably confronts a range of critical ethical challenges. This volume brings together 25 articles that open up the terrain of the ethics of public health. It features topics such as tobacco and drug control, infectious disease, environmental and occupational disease, and more.

Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together 25 articles by leading thinkers in the field, writing on topics that concern both classic and novel problems. They open up new terrain in each area, including tobacco and drug control, infectious disease, environmental and occupational health, the effect of new genetics on the public's health, and the impact of social inequalities on patterns of morbidity and mortality. The volume editors offer a context for discussion with introductory essays for each of the book's five sections.

1. The Public Health Perspective ; 2. Autonomy and Paternalism ; 3. Justice and Health ; 4. Infectious Disease: Coercion and the Protection of Society ; 5. Regulation, Environmental and Occupational Health ; 6. Genetics and Public Health

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.12.2006
Zusatzinfo	6 line illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	233 x 159 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	0-19-518085-2 / 0195180852
ISBN-13	978-0-19-518085-5 / 9780195180855
Zustand	Neuware