Springer Series in Public Health and Health Policy Ethics

The Springer Series in Public Health and Health Policy Ethics and its companion compact-book series, the SpringerBriefs in Public Health and Health Policy Ethics, are designed to foster diverse and innovative research and critical analysis of health governance, with particular emphasis on the role of normative frameworks, such as ethics, political theory, and law. Both series focus on normative theory and the practice of public health, with its emphasis on the health and well-being at the population level and the social determinants of health.

The Series also welcomes submissions focusing on normative theory and the practice of health policy analysis, with its focus on the politics, economics, and institutional design of health systems. This Series aims to foster innovative critical scholarship and research in these two fields, and cognate areas, such as environmental health, justice, and climate change, that are converging with public health and health policy. Such new scholarship is needed for two reasons. First, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has brought transformative challenges and changes to public health and health policy and the time is right for a reexamination of the normative and the social scientific aspects of these fields. Second, the pandemic has exposed significant vulnerabilities in all societies that grow out of the convergence of health emergencies, altered patterns of risk and adaptation emerging from climate change, and a growing loss of legitimacy and public trust that is undermining the democratic foundations of all governance, including health.

This Springer Series in Public Health and Health Policy Ethics welcomes original works that explore the connections among human health, ecosystemic integrity and health, and social justice and rights. The Series aims to publish full-length volumes emerging from philosophical, historical, and cultural analysis as well as empirical research emerging from biomedical and social sciences. Comparative analysis of historical and intellectual development of the fields of public health and health policy analysis, and the similarities and differences among these fields, can find a home in this Series. This Series is open to volumes of 150 pages or longer, to single or co-authored monographs, and to edited and multi-authored collections of content of significant interest for scholarship and teaching.