Public health policy and ethics
By: edited by Michael Boylan.
Contributors: Boylan, Michael, 1952-
Series: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine -- v. 19.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Public health -- Moral and ethical aspects; Medical policy -- Moral and ethical aspects; Human rights -- Health aspects; Public Health -- ethics; Health Policy; Social Medicine -- ethics; Social Justice; Philosophy, Medical
Description: Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the group? How do policy concerns and clinical practice work together and work against each other? Can the boundaries of public health be extended to include social ills that are amenable to group-dynamic solutions? These are some of the crucial questions that form the core of this volume of original essays sure to cause practitioners to engage in a critical re-evaluation of the role of ethics in public health policy. This volume is unique because of its philosophical approach. It develops a theoretical basis for public health and then examines cutting-edge issues of practice that include social and political issues of public health. In this way the book extends the usual purview of public health. Public Health Policy and Ethics is of interest to those working in public health policy, ethics and social philosophy. It may be used as a textbook for courses on public health policy and ethics, medical ethics, social philosophy and applied or public philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.