Overview
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 19)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 essays sure to cause practitioners to engage in a critical re-evaluation of the role of ethics in public health policy.
This volume is unique because of its philosophical approach. It develops a theoretical basis for public health and then examines cutting-edge issues of practice that include social and political issues of public health. In this way the book extends the usual purview of public health. Public Health Policy and Ethics is of interest to those working in public health policy, ethics and social philosophy. It may be used as a textbook for courses on public health policy and ethics, medical ethics, social philosophy and applied or public philosophy.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The emerging field of public health ethics, if it is to exist at all, is in its infancy, and this book provides a valuable resource to provoke discussion, research and analysis." (George J. Annas, The Lancet, December 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Health Policy and Ethics
Editors: Michael Boylan
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2207-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1762-9Published: 29 June 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1763-6Published: 15 February 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2207-4Published: 17 May 2006
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 246
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Public Health, Philosophy, general, Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine