Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice

Brings together twenty-five articles by leading thinkers in the field, writing on topics that concern both classic and novel problems.

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.

The authors 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 publics 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 books five sections.

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Bayer, Ronald; Gostin, Lawrence O.; Jennings, Bruce; Steinbock, Bonnie

ISBN:

978-0-19-518085-5

Specialty:

• Health Policy

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

432

Publication Year:

2006

Doody's Star Rating®:

Score:

79