Ethics, prevention, and public health /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2007.
Description:	xi, 234 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Issues in biomedical ethics
Subject:	Bioethics. Ethics, Medical. Public Health -- ethics. Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects. Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6281518

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Other authors / contributors:	Dawson, Angus. Verweij, Marcus.
ISBN:	9780199290697 0199290695
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health
2. The Meaning of 'Public' in 'Public Health'
3. Public Health and Civic Republicanism: Towards an Alternative Framework for Public Health Ethics
4. Health of the People: The Highest Law?
5. Population-level Bioethics: Mapping a New Agenda
6. Parental Choice and Expert Knowledge in the Debate about MMR and Autism
7. Ethical Issues in Applying Quantitative Models for Setting Priorities in Prevention
8. Reasonable Limits to Public Health Demands
9. Vertical Transmission of Infectious Diseases and Genetic Disorder: Are the Medical and Public Responses Consistent?
10. Herd Protection as a Public Good: Vaccination and Our Obligations to Others
11. Tobacco Discouragement: A Non-paternalistic Approach
12. Informed Consent and the Expansion of Newborn Screening

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