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Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced - especially in the international arena. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the group? How do policy concerns and clinical practice work together and work against each other? Can the boundaries of public health be extended to include social ills that are amenable to group-dynamic solutions? What about political issues? How can international finance make an impact? These are some of the crucial questions that form the core of this volume of original essays sure to cause practitioners to engage in a critical re-evaluation of the role of ethics in public health policy.
List of contents
Morality and Politics.- Introduction: International Public Health: Morality, Politics, Poverty, War, Disease.- Personal or Public Health?.- Exploring the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Rights Approach to International Public Health Ethics.- Moral Interests, Privacy, and Medical Research.- Torture and Public Health.- Exporting the "Culture of Life".- Money and Poverty.- International Health Inequalities and Global Justice.- Poverty, Human Rights, and Just Distribution.- Why Should We Help the Poor? Philosophy and Poverty.- Health Care Justice: The Social Insurance Approach.- Investments, Universal Ownership, and Public Health.- Medical Need and Response.- Toward Control of Infectious Disease: Ethical Challenges for a Global Effort.- Shaping Ethical Guidelines for an Influenza Pandemic.- TB Matters More.- Ethics of Management of Gender Atypical Organisation in Children and Adolescents.- Clean Water.
About the author
Michael Boylan is the Chair of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Marymount University. He is also the author of A Just Society (2004), Ethics Across the Curriculum: A Practice-Based Approach (2003, with James A. Donahue), and Basic Ethics (2000). He received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago.
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"This collection of essays by noted public health scholars and professionals broadly defines public health and explores questions of its international policy and ethics. ... This should be of interest to those involved in public health policy and ethics, and in how international politics, law, culture, history, disparities, etc., complicate this field. ... This is a good introduction to the increasingly important field of international public health." (Daniel Bustillos, Doody's Review Services, December, 2008)
