Research Catalog

Title

The philosophy of public health / edited by Angus Dawson.

Publication

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dawson, Angus.

Description

[ix], 194 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Philosophy, Medical
• Public Health
• Public health > Philosophy > Congresses
• Gezondheidszorg
• Openbare voorzieningen

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "The papers ... originally presented at the annual conference of the Society for Applied Philosophy, held in Manchester, UK, 30 June-2 July 2006"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The role of law in public health / Robyn Martin -- Luck, risk and prevention / Katherine King -- The duty to promote social capital / Patricia Illingworth -- On the evaluative space for measuring public health performance / Onyebuchi A. Arah -- Global concerns and local arguments : how a localized bioethics may perpetuate injustice / Soren Holm -- Health in developing countries and our global responsibilities / Gillian Brock -- Shared responsibility agreements : causes of contention / Paula Boddington -- Anti-paternalism and public health policy : the case of product safety legislation / Kalle Grill -- Newborn screening and choosing whether to know / Niels Nijsingh -- Choosing to sleep / Benjamin Hale, Lauren Hale -- Categories of constraint and avenues of freedom : proposing collective agency for addressing problems of obesity / Catherine A. Womack -- Equipoise in public health research / Marcel Verweij -- Closing the book on infectious disease : the mischievous consequences for bioethics and for public health / Leslie P. Francis ... [et al.] -- The common good argument and HIV prevention / Charlotte Paul -- Contagious disease and rights / T.M. Wilkinson.

ISBN

• 9780754660439 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0754660435 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780754693574 (ebk.)
• 0754693570 (ebk.)

LCCN

^^2008044321

OCLC

• 263498053
• SCSB-10532265

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library