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Public health ethics : theory, policy, and practice
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Public health ethics : theory, policy, and practice

Author: Ronald Bayer; Dan E Beauchamp; et al
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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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  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Collected Works
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Public health ethics.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
(OCoLC)607841450
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald Bayer; Dan E Beauchamp; et al
ISBN: 0195180844 9780195180848 0195180852 9780195180855
OCLC Number: 64065849
Notes: Rev. ed. of: New ethics for the public's health / edited by Dan E. Beauchamp, Bonnie Steinbock. 1990.
Description: xiv, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Other Titles: New ethics for the public's health.
Responsibility: edited by Ronald Bayer ... [et al.].
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