Overview
- World-renowned authors from five countries writing on a broad conception of public health—cutting edge
- Key insights into policy and ethics dealing with an avian flu epidemic, malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, and gender atypical organization
- Key analysis of the crisis of water, sanitation, and disease
- Inclusion of torture, human rights, poverty reduction, and religious imperialism into the public health arena
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 42)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Morality and Politics
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Back Matter
Keywords
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 – especially in the international arena. 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? What about political issues? How can international finance make an impact? 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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This collection of essays by noted public health scholars and professionals broadly defines public health and explores questions of its international policy and ethics. … This should be of interest to those involved in public health policy and ethics, and in how international politics, law, culture, history, disparities, etc., complicate this field. … This is a good introduction to the increasingly important field of international public health." (Daniel Bustillos, Doody’s Review Services, December, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Public Health Policy and Ethics
Editors: Michael Boylan
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8617-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9135-0Published: 14 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8617-5Published: 20 July 2008
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 297
Topics: Public Health, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy, general