The ethics of public health /

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Imprint:Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, c2010.
Description:2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:International library of medicine, ethics and law
International library of medicine, ethics and law.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8151120
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Other authors / contributors:Freeman, Michael D. A.
ISBN:9780754626053 (set)
0754626059 (set)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Volume I. Introduction
  • Part I. An Introduction
  • The genesis of public health ethics
  • Rethinking the meaning of public health
  • From old to new public health: role tensions and contradictions
  • Health promotion development in Europe: achievements and challenges
  • Part II. And Bioethics
  • Public health ethics: mapping the terrain
  • Ethics and public health, forging a strong relationship
  • Broadening the bioethics agenda
  • How infectious diseases got left out - and what this omission might have meant for bioethics
  • Public health ethics: from foundations and frameworks to justice and global public health
  • Ethics and infectious diseases
  • Part III. The Historical Debate
  • The importance of social intervention in Britain's mortality decline c.1850-1914: a re-interpretation of the role of public health
  • The rise of surveillance medicine
  • Part IV. Research Issues
  • Ethical principles for the conduct of human subject research: population-based research and ethics
  • Protection of research subjects: do special rules apply in epidemiology?
  • Children in HIV/AIDS clinical trials: still vulnerable after all these years
  • Protecting communities in research: philosophical and pragmatic challenges
  • Sick individuals and sick populations
  • Part V. Public Health and Autonomy
  • Should public health respect autonomy?
  • Obligatory precautions against infection
  • Part VI. Questions of Governance
  • Governance, microgovernance and health
  • Globalization and cholera: implications for global governance
  • Beyond communicable disease control: health in the age of globalization
  • Strengthening governance for global health research
  • Part VII. Public Health and Human Rights
  • Is there a government in the cockpit: a passenger's perspective, or global public health: the role of human rights
  • Medicine and public health, ethics and human rights
  • Global disparities in health and human rights: a critical commentary
  • Part VIII. Surveillance and Privacy
  • The limits of privacy: surveillance and the control of disease
  • Part IX. Prevention and Its Limits
  • Individual and collective considerations in public health: influenza vaccination in nursing homes
  • The precautionary principle, epidemiology and the ethics of delay
  • The precautionary principle also applies to public health actions
  • Part X. Confinement and Liberty
  • Cuba's quarantine of AIDS victims: a violation of human rights,?
  • Controlling AIDS in Cuba: the logic of quarantine
  • The politics of AIDS: compulsory state powers, public health and civil liberties
  • Name Index
  • Volume II. Introduction
  • Part I. The SARS Crisis
  • SARS: political pathology of the first post-Westphalian pathogen
  • China's response to SARS
  • Ethics and SARS: lessons from Toronto
  • Part II. HIV and AIDS
  • A global political economy approach to AIDS: ideology, interests and implications
  • Part III. Bioterrorism
  • Rights and dangers: bioterrorism and the ideologies of public health
  • Critical biological agents: disease reporting as a tool for determining bioterrorism preparedness
  • Bioterrorism law and policy: critical choices in public health
  • Blinded by bioterrorism: public health and liberty in the 21st century
  • Quarantine redux: bioterrorism, AIDS and the curtailment of individual liberty in the name of public health
  • Bioethics and the national security state
  • Public health: a neglected counterterrorist measure
  • Part IV. Avian Flu
  • Pandemic influenza: public health preparedness for the next global health emergency
  • Preparing for an influenza pandemic: ethical issues
  • Part V. Climate Change
  • Climate change, human health and the post-cautionary principle
  • Part VI. Tobacco Control
  • The ethics of smoking
  • Smokers' rights to health care: why the 'restoration argument' is a moralising wolf in a liberal sheep's clothing
  • Using litigation to make public health policy: theoretical and empirical challenges in assessing product liability, tobacco and gun litigation
  • Part VII. Vaccination
  • Mass immunization programmes: some philosophical issues
  • Public communication, risk perception and the viaibility of preventive vaccination against communicable diseases
  • The determination of 'best interests' in relation to childhood vaccinations
  • Ethical issues for vaccines and immunization
  • Part VIII. Public Health and Genetic Health
  • From genes to public health: the applications of genetic technology in disease prevention
  • Public health and the 'new' genetics: balancing individual and collective outcomes
  • Genetic screening from a public health perspective: some lessons from the HIV experience
  • Biobanking: international norms
  • Harnessing the benefits of biobanks
  • Genetic exceptionalism and legislative pragmatism
  • Part IX. Public Health and Equity
  • Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritisation of healthcare resources
  • Health equity and social justice
  • Health by association? Social capital, social theory and political economy of public health
  • Part X. Public Health and the Developing World
  • Rethinking medical ethics: a view from below
  • The injustice of unsafe motherhood
  • Public health in developing countries
  • Justice and medical research: a global perspective
  • A global health fund: a leap of faith?
  • The new international health regulations: an historic development for international law and public health
  • Name Index