Public health ethics : theory, policy, and practice /
Contributor(s): Bayer, Ronald | Beauchamp, Dan E.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xiv, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780195180855 (paper : alk. paper); 9780195180855:.Subject(s): Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects | Medical policy -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 174.2| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
About the editors -- Introduction : ethical theory and public health -- pt. 1. The public health perspective -- Introduction -- 1. Sick individuals and sick populations / Geoffrey Rose -- 2. Community : the neglected tradition of public health / Dan E. Beauchamp -- 3. The future of the public's health : vision, values, and strategies / Lawrence O. Gostin, Jo Ivey Boufford, and Rose Marie Martinez -- 4. Rethinking the meaning of public health / Mark A. Rothstein -- pt. 2. Autonomy and paternalism -- Introduction -- 5. Who should be blamed for being sick? / Daniel Wikler -- 6. Health promotion : ethical and social dilemmas of government policy / Ronald Bayer and Jonathan D. Moreno -- 7. No smoking : the ethical issues / Robert E. Goodin -- 8. For your own good : the anti-smoking crusade and the tyranny of public health / Jacob Sullum -- 9. Drug prohibition in the United States : costs, consequences, and alternatives / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- 10. Against the legalization of drugs / James Q. Wilson --
pt. 3. Justice and health -- Introduction -- 11. Policy implications of the gradient of health and wealth -- 12. Putting the picture together : prosperity, redistribution, health, ans welfare / Richard G. Wilkinson -- 13. Why justice is good for our health : the social determinants of health inequalities / Norman Daniels, Bruce P. Kennedy, and Ichiro Kawachi -- 14. Health policy in a new key : setting Democratic priorities / Bruce Jennings -- pt. 4. Infectious disease: coercion and the protection of society -- 15. Surveillance and privacy / Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild -- 16. Ethical and legal challenges posed by severe acute respiratory syndrome : implications for the control of severe infectious disease threats / Lawrence O. Gostin , Ronald Bayer, and Amy L. Fairchild -- 17. Ethical issues in the vaccination of children / Douglas S. Diekema and Edgar K. Marcuse -- 18. Rights and dangers : bioterrorism and the ideologies of public health / Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove --
pt. 5. Regulation and environmental and occupational health -- Introduction -- 19. Regulating toxic substances : a philosophy of science and the law / Carl F. Cranor -- 20. To foresee and to forestall / Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel A. Tichner -- 21. Doth OSHA protect too much? / Norman Daniels -- pt. 6. Genetics and public health -- Introduction -- 22. Genetic screening from a public health perspective : three 'ethical' principles / Scott Burris and Lawrence O. Gostin -- 23. The environmental genome project : ethical, legal, and social implications / Richard R. Sharp and Carl Barrett -- 24. The complex relationships of genetics, groups, and health : what it means for public health / Ellen Wright Clayton -- 25. Genetic research and health disparities / Pamela Sankar, Mildred K. Cho, Celeste M. Condit, Linda M. Hunt, Barbara Koenig, Patricia Marshall, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Paul Spicer -- Index.
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, and infectious disease.