The philosophy of public health /
Public health is once again becoming a major political and social issue in the 21st century, especially in relation to issues such as vaccination, the threat of pandemics, bioterrorism, smoking and obesity. A diverse set of theoretical ideas have emerged recently in the legal, political, bioethical...
| Други автори: | Dawson, Angus. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
℗♭2009.
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Print version::
Philosophy of public health. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: the philosophy of public health
- The role of law in public health
- Luck, risk and prevention
- The duty to promote social capital
- On the evaluative space for measuring public health performance
- Global concerns and local arguments: how a localized bioethics may perpetuate injustice
- Health in developing countries and our global responsibilities
- Shared responsibility agreements: causes of contention
- Anti-paternalism and public health policy: the case of product safety legislation
- Newborn screening and choosing whether to know
- Choosing to sleep
- Categories of constraint and avenues of freedom: proposing collective agency for addressing problems of obesity
- Equipoise in public health research
- Closing the book on infectious disease: the mischievous consequences for bioethics and for public health
- The common good argument and hiv prevention
- Contagious disease and rights.