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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health is a field-defining and sustained reflection on the various ethical, political, methodological and conceptual aspects of global public health.
List of contents
Introduction: Philosophy and Public Health
Alex Broadbent and Sridhar Venkatapuram Part 1: Concepts and Distinctions 1. The Public in Public Health
John Coggon 2. Medicine and Public Health
Daniel Steel 3. Groups and Individuals
Stephen John 4. Concepts of Health and Disease in Public Health
Benjamin Smart 5. Public Health and Ethics
Sridhar Venkatapuram 6. The Philosophical Implications of Fundamental Cause Theory
Daniel Goldberg 7. Causal Pluralism and Public Health
Federica Russo Part 2: Reasons and Actions 8. External Validity and Public Health
Chad Harris 9. Explanation in Public Health
Olaf Dammann 10. Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health
Mathew Mercuri and Ross E. G. Upshur 11. Profiling in Public Health
Winnie Ma 12. Big Data and Public Health
Derek W. Braverman 13. Machine Learning and Public Health: Philosophical Issues
Thomas Grote and Alex Broadbent Part 3: Distribution and Inequalities 14. Capabilities, Human Flourishing, and the Health Gap
Michael Marmot 15. Measuring Social Position in Health Inequality Research
Mel Bartley 16. Race and Racism in Public Health
M.A. Diamond-Hunter 17. Sex and Gender Blind Spots and Biases in Health Research
Avni Amin, Lavanya Vijayasingham, and Jacqui Stevenson 18. Global Health Indicators and Data: Communicative Signs and Sites of Contest
Sara L. M. Davis 19. Securitization and Health
Jeremy Youde 20. Health, Place and Justice: A Philosophical Appraisal of Promoting Equity in Covid-19 through Disadvantage Indices
Samantha Fritz, Tuhina Srivastava, Emily Sadecki, and Harald Schmidt Part 4: Rights and Duties 21. Social Justice and Public Health
Maxwell J. Smith 22. Health, Healthcare, and Public Health as Objects of (Human) Rights
Michael Da Silva 23. Disability Justice and Public Health
Agnès Berthelot-Raffard 24. Ageing and Justice in Health: A Conceptual Map toward a Unified View
Kebadu Mekonnen Gebremariam and Ritu Sadana 25. Philosophical Issues in Cancer and Public Health
Anya Plutynski 26. Public Health, Human Rights, and Philosophy
Kristen Hessler. Index
About the author
Sridhar Venkatapuram is Associate Professor of Global Health and Philosophy at King's College London, UK. He is based at the Global Health Institute, where he is Deputy Director, and Director of Global Health Education. He publishes widely across various disciplines, has helped establish health justice philosophy, and has worked in various ethics advisory roles to public and global health institutions. He is the author of
Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach (2011) and co-editor of
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of Covid-19 (2020). He can be found at @sridhartweet.
Alex Broadbent is Professor of Philosophy of Science at Durham University, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research concerns the philosophy of epidemiology and medicine, causation, counterfactuals, prediction, complexity, conceptual aspects of machine learning, and scientific evidence in law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Philosophy of Medicine. He is an Associate Member of Millennium Chambers, The Barrister Network, London.
