Public health ethics and practice
By: edited by Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann.
Contributors: Peckham, Stephen.; Hann, Alison.
Publisher: Policy
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781847421036; 9781847421029
Subjects: Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why public health ethics? / Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann; title: PART ONE. PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS, CONTEXTS : Why ethics? What kind of ethics for public health? / Alan Cribb; title: Public health ethics: what it is and how to do it / Stephen Holland; title: PART TWO. ETHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE: What does it mean to 'know' a disease? The tragedy of XDR-TB / Ross Upshur; title: The evaluation of public health initiatives on smoking and lung cancer: an ethical critique / Peter Allmark, Angela Tod and Jo Abbott; title: Relevance of primary care bioethics committees in public health ethical practice in the community: an experience in an area of extreme poverty in Santiago, Chile / Marla Solari and Tatiana Escobar-Koch; title: Unlinked anonymous blood testing for public health purposes: an ethical dilemma? / Jessica Datta and Anthony Kessell; title: Constructing the obesity epidemic: loose science, money and public health / Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; title: Politics, ethics and evidence: immunisation and public health policy / Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; title: Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the 'cure' for cervical cancer / Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; title: A call for clearer vaccine exemption typology to improve population health / Erica Sutton and Ross Upshur; title: PART THREE. PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS, DEVELOPING A BASIS FOR PRACTICE: Theory and practice in public health ethics: a complex relationship / Angus Dawson; title: Conclusion: taking forward the debate / Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann.