Research Catalog

Title

Public health ethics : theory, policy, and practice / edited by Ronald Bayer [and others].

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Bayer, Ronald.

Description

xiv, 418 pages; 24 cm

Uniform Title

New ethics for the public's health.

Subjects

• Communicable Disease Control
• Collected Work
• Ethics, Medical
• Public health > Moral and ethical aspects
• Social Problems
• Public Health > ethics
• Medical policy > Moral and ethical aspects
• Health Policy
• Environmental Health

Genre/Form

Collected Work.

Note

• Rev. ed. of: New ethics for the public's health / edited by Dan E. Beauchamp, Bonnie Steinbock. 1990.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction : ethical theory and public health -- 1. Sick individuals and sick populations / Geoffrey Rose -- 2. Community : the neglected tradition of public health / Dan E. Beauchamp -- 3. The future of the public's health : vision, values, and strategies / Lawrence O. Gostin, Jo Ivey Boufford and Rose Marie Martinez -- 4. Rethinking the meaning of public health / Mark A. Rothstein -- 5. Who should be blamed for being sick? / Daniel Wikler -- 6. Health promotion : ethical and social dilemmas of government policy / Ronald Bayer and Jonathan D. Moreno -- 7. No smoking : the ethical issues / Robert E. Goodin -- 8. For your own good : the anti-smoking crusade and the tyranny of public health / Jacob Sullum -- 9. Drug prohibition in the United States : costs, consequences, and alternatives / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- 10. Against the legalization of drugs / James Q. Wilson -- 11. Policy implications of the gradient of health and wealth / Angus Deaton -- 12. Putting the picture together : prosperity, redistribution, health, and welfare / Richard G. Wilkinson -- 13. Why justice is good for our health : the social determinants of health inequalities / Norman Daniels, Bruce P. Kennedy and Ichiro Kawachi -- 14. Health policy in a new key : setting democratic priorities / Bruce Jennings -- 15. Surveillance and privacy / Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild -- 16. Ethical and legal challenges posed by severe acute respiratory syndrome : implications for the control of severe infectious disease threats / Lawrence O. Gostin, Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild -- 17. Ethical issues in the vaccination of children / Douglas S. Diekema and Edgar K. Marcuse -- 18. Rights and dangers : bioterrorism and the ideologies of public health / Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove -- 19. Regulating toxic substances : a philosophy of science and the law / Carl F. Cranor -- 20. To foresee and to forestall / Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel A. Tickner -- 21. Doth OSHA protect too much? / Norman Daniels -- 22. Genetic screening from a public health perspective : three 'ethical' principles / Scott Burris and Lawrence O. Gostin -- 23. The environmental genome project : ethical, legal, and social implications / Richard R. Sharp and J. Carl Barrett -- 24. The complex relationships of genetics, groups, and health : what it means for public health / Ellen Wright Clayton -- 25. Genetic research and health disparities / Pamela Sankar, Mildred K. Cho, Celeste M. Condit, Linda M. Hunt, Barbara Koenig, Patricia Marshall, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee and Paul Spicer.

ISBN

• 0195180844 (cl. : alk. paper)
• 0195180852 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006004331
• 9780195180848
• 9780195180855

OCLC

• ocm64065849
• SCSB-8877520

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries