Public Health Ethics - Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice

Informationen zum Autor Angus Dawson is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University and co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Health Ethics. Klappentext This book presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field. Zusammenfassung Public health ethics is a discipline concerned with the health of the public or a population as a whole! rather than focusing on the individual. This book introduces a number of this new field's central concepts and explores the key and controversial issues arising. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction Angus Dawson; Part I. Concepts: 1. Resetting the parameters: public health as the foundation for public health ethics Angus Dawson; 2. Health, disease and the goal of public health Bengt Brülde; 3. Selective reproduction, eugenics and public health Stephen Wilkinson; 4. Risk and precaution Stephen John; Part II. Issues: 5. Smoking, health and ethics Richard Ashcroft; 6. Infectious disease control Marcel Verweij; 7. Population screening Ainsley Newson; 8. Vaccination ethics Angus Dawson; 9. Environment, ethics and public health: the climate change dilemma Anthony Kessel and Carolyn Stephens; 10. Public health research ethics: is non-exploitation the new principle for population-based research ethics? John McMillan; 11. Equity and population health: toward a broader bioethics agenda Norman Daniels; 12. Health inequities James Wilson; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Angus Dawson, Angus (Keele University) Dawson
• Assisted by: Angus Dawson (Editor), Angus (Keele University) Dawson (Editor), Dawson Angus (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521689366
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68936-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Medicine (Paperback)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Ethics, Bio-ethics, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Medicolegal issues