The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine
Subtitle: Serving Society or Serving the Patient?
By: by Niklas Juth, Christian Munthe
Contributors: Munthe, Christian; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine -- 51
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789400720442; 9789400720459
Subjects: Medicine; Medical ethics; Public health; Philosophy
Description: Medical or health-oriented screening programs are amongst the most debated aspects of health care and public health practices in health care and public health ethics, as well as health policy discussions. In spite of this, most treatments of screening in the research literature restrict themselves to isolated scientific aspects, sometimes complemented by economic analyses or loose speculations regarding policy aspects. At the same time, recent advances in medical genetics and technology, as well as a rapidly growing societal focus on public health concerns, inspires an increase in suggested or.