Overview
- Includes refereed contributions on various aspects of public health, such as philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics
- Brings together researchers who are working fields related to public health debates
- Written in a style accessible for researchers from numerous different fields
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Table of contents (14 papers)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics. The contributions were originally presented at the 1st Barcelona conference of “Philosophy of Public Health” (5th – 7th May 2016). This book is intended for researchers interested in public health and the contemporary debates surrounding it.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Angel Puyol is an Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he teaches ethics and political philosophy. His researchfocuses on the theories of justice and bioethics. He was a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics, New York University and La Sapienza (Roma). His most recent book is Political Fraternity. Democracy beyond Freedom and Equality (Routledge, New York, 2019), and he is currently investigating solidarity in health.
Anna Estany is an Emeritus Full Professor at the Philosophy Department of the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches in epistemology and philosophy of science, as well as design sciences. She holds a Master of Arts from Indiana University, and a PhD from the Universitat of Barcelona, and she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California San Diego. Her publications include Vida, muerte y resurrección de la conciencia. Análisis filosófico de las revoluciones científicas en la psicología contemporánea, (1999); Barcelona: Paidós, ¿EUREKA? El transfondo de un descubrimiento sobre el cáncer y lagenética molecular, (2003) with D. Casacuberta; Barcelona: Tusquets (Metatemas) and Innovación en el saber teórico y práctico, with R.M. Herrera, 2016, College Publications. She is currently investigating medical and epidemiological reasoning and design epistemology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophical and Methodological Debates in Public Health
Editors: Jordi Vallverdú, Angel Puyol, Anna Estany
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28626-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28625-5Published: 17 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28628-6Published: 17 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28626-2Published: 16 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 214
Topics: Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Philosophy of Medicine, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Bioethics, Biostatistics