The ethics of public health /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, c2010. |
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| 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: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8151120 |
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
