Ethics and Epidemiology 3rd edition

Now updated with timely global examples, Ethics and Epidemiology, Third Edition provides an in-depth account to the theoretical and practical moral problems confronting public health students and professionals and offers guidance for how justified moral conclusions can be reached.

About the author

Steven Coughlin, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Dr. Coughlin was Chair of the committee that drafted the ethics guidelines for the American College of Epidemiology, and he served previously as a senior epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than eleven years.

Summary

Now updated with timely global examples, Ethics and Epidemiology, Third Edition provides an in-depth account to the theoretical and practical moral problems confronting public health students and professionals and offers guidance for how justified moral conclusions can be reached.

Additional text

Ethics and Epidemiology, Third Edition rightly eschews the belief that quantitative measurement circumvents debates over values by demonstrating that ethical issues are both present in epidemiological investigation and amenable to resolution. Readers will benefit from this interconnected analysis of science and values and learn strategies for addressing current complex global issues.

Product details

• Assisted by: Steven S. (Professor of Epidemiology Coughlin (Editor), Angus (Professor of Bioethics Dawson (Editor), Steven S. Coughlin (Editor), Angus Dawson (Editor), Coughlin Steven S. (Editor)
• Authors: Steven S. (EDT)/ Dawson Coughlin, Steven S. (Professor of Epidemiology Coughlin, Steven S. Coughlin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.08.2021
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General
• EAN: 9780197587058
• ISBN: 978-0-19-758705-8
• Pages: 286
• Subjects: Epidemiology & medical statistics, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, LAW / Health, Bioethics, Bio-ethics, Medical & healthcare law, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Medical and healthcare law, Epidemiology and Medical statistics