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Title Ethics, prevention, and public health / edited by Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij.

Publication Info. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 234 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Issues in biomedical ethics
Issues in biomedical ethics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.
Contents Introduction: ethics, prevention, and public health / Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij -- Meaning of 'Public' in 'Public Health' / Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson -- Public health and civic republicanism: toward an alternative framework for public health ethics / Bruce Jennings -- Health of the people: the highest law? / Lawrence O. Gostin and Lesley Stone -- Population-level bioethics: mapping a new agenda / Daniel Wikler and Dan W. Brock -- Parental choice and expert knowledge in the debate about MMR and autism / Tom Sorrell -- Ethical issues in applying quantitative models for setting priorities in prevention / Dan W. Brock -- Reasonable limits to public health demands / Mariƫtte van den Hoven -- Vertical transmission of infectious diseases and genetic disorder: are the medical and public responses consistent? / Jay A. Jacobsen [and others] -- Herd protection as a public good: vaccination and our obligations to others / Angus Dawson -- Tobacco discouragement: a non-paternalistic argument / Marcel Verweij -- Informed consent and the expansion of newborn screening / Niels Nijsingh.
Summary In twelve original papers notable ethicists explore various issues raised by public health practice - an area that has received scant attention in published literature. They use the resources of ethical theory to illuminate important theoretical and practical topics, including the nature of public health, notions of community, population bioethics, the legitimate role of law, the use of cost-effectiveness as a methodology, screening, smoking policies, vaccinations, and the nature of. infectious disease. - ;Public health is an important and fast-developing area of ethical discussion. In this vo.
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Subject Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethics.
Ethics, Medical.
Public Health -- ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dawson, Angus.
Verweij, M. F.
Other Form: Print version: Ethics, prevention, and public health. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199290697 0199290695 (OCoLC)80547217
ISBN 9780191516160 (electronic book)
0191516163 (electronic book)
0199290695 (Cloth)
9780199290697 (Cloth)