Public health ethics : key concepts and issues in policy and practice [E-Book]

By:

Dawson, Angus (ed)

Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)ISBN:

1139641654
9781139641654

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Contents:

Section 1 Concepts; Chapter 1 Resetting the parameters: Public health as the foundation for public health ethics; Chapter 2 Health, disease and the goal of public health; Chapter 3 Selective reproduction, eugenics and public health; Chapter 4 Risk and precaution; Section 2 Issues; Chapter 5 Smoking, health and ethics; Chapter 6. Infectious disease control; Chapter 7 Population screening; Chapter 8 Vaccination ethics; Chapter 9 Environment, ethics and public health: the climate change dilemma; Chapter 10 Public health research ethics: is non-exploitation the new principle for population-based research ethics?; Chapter 11 Equity and population health: toward a broader bioethics agenda.

Summary: Presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field.

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Electronic book	Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Online		Link to resource	Available	[e-book. Login with your Homerton OpenAthens username]

Presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field.

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