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1 online resource (x, 234 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Issues in biomedical ethics
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Issues in biomedical ethics.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Bioethics. |
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Ethics, Medical. |
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Public Health -- ethics. |
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Dawson, Angus.
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Verweij, M. F.
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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) |
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0191516163 (electronic book) |
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0199290695 (Cloth) |
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9780199290697 (Cloth) |
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