Public health policy and ethics /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xxxiv, 244 p.)
Language:	English
Series:	International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 19 International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 19.
Subject:	Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical policy -- Moral and ethical aspects. Human rights -- Health aspects. Health Policy. Public Health -- ethics. Philosophy, Medical. Social Justice. Social Medicine -- ethics. Human rights -- Health aspects. Medical policy -- Moral and ethical aspects. Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8876452

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Other authors / contributors:	Boylan, Michael, 1952-
ISBN:	9781402022074 1402022077
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the group? How do policy concerns and clinical practice work together and work against each other? Can the boundaries of public health be extended to include social ills that are amenable to group-dynamic solutions? These are some of the crucial questions that form the core of this volume of original essay.
Other form:	Print version: Public health policy and ethics. Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004 1402017626 9781402017629

Table of Contents:

Preface: What is Public Health
Introduction: Michael Boylan, "The Moral Imperative to Maintain Public Health"
1. "Professing Public Health: Practicing Ethics and Ethics as Practice"
2. "The Good of Patients and the Good of Society: Striking a Moral Balance"
3. "Taking on 'Big Fat' : The Relative Risks and Benefits of the War Against Obesity"
4. "Individual Rights, Social Justice, and the Allocation of Advances in Biotechnology"
5. "Justice in Allocations for Terrorism, Biological Warfare, and Public Health"
6. "A New Bioethics Framework for Facilitating Better Decision-Making About Genetic Information"
7. "Sanctity of Life vs. Quality of Life in Maternal-Fetal Surgery: Personal and Public Priorities"
8. "Gun Control and Public Health"
9. "From Fear to Eternity: Violence and Public Health"
10. "The Politics of Preventing Premature Death"
11. "The Right to Die and the Right to Health Care"
11. "Global Justice and Health: Is Health Care a Basic Right?"
12. "Advocacy and Community: Conflicts of Interest in Public Health Research"
About the Contributors
Index

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