Editors:
- Covers one of the most important and fastest growing areas of bioethics and public health ethics
- An unique interdisciplinary collection of papers authored by world leading figures in philosophy, bioethics, law, public health and medicine
- Broad in scope, with up-to-date analysis of controversies surrounding pandemic planning, drug resistance, vaccination policy, public health surveillance, bioterrorism, and other emerging topics in public health ethics.
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About this book
Infectious disease ethics is one of the fastest growing—and increasingly being recognised as one of the most important—topics in bioethics and public health ethics. Paramount among ethical issues associated with infectious disease are those that arise with conflict between the goal to promote individual liberty, on the one hand, and the goal to promote other legitimate social goals such as (equality or) utility in the way of public health, on the other. Authored by world leading figures in philosophy, bioethics, law, public health and medicine, the papers in this volume focus on such conflicts and, inter alia, illustrate the diversity of ways in which such conflicts can arise and offer carefully argued, creative solutions for addressing them. They cover a broad range of topics including ethical issues associated with pandemic planning, health workers’ rights and duties, vaccination policy, coercion and compensation, opt-out HIV testing, public health surveillance, and bioterrorism.
Keywords
- bioethics
- biological weapons
- bioterrorism
- drug resistance
- dual use
- ethics
- infectious disease
- influenza
- justice
- liberty
- pandemics
- public health ethics
- tuberculosis
- infectious diseases
Editors and Affiliations
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Public Ethics (CAPPE), Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy &, Canberra, Australia
Michael J. Selgelid
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Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Angela McLean, Nimalan Arinaminpathy
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Oxford, United Kingdom
Julian Savulescu
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infectious Disease Ethics
Book Subtitle: Limiting Liberty in Contexts of Contagion
Editors: Michael J. Selgelid, Angela McLean, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Julian Savulescu
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0563-0Published: 21 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9199-2Published: 15 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 153