Public health ethics and practice /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Peckham, Stephen, Hann, Alison
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Why public health ethics?
  • Why ethics? What kind of ethics for public health?
  • Public health ethics : what it is and how to do it
  • What does it mean to 'know' a disease? The tragedy of XDR-TB
  • The evaluation of public health initiatives on smoking and lung cancer : an ethical critique
  • 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
  • Unlinked anonymous blood testing for public health purposes : an ethical dilemma?
  • Constructing the obesity epidemic : loose science, money and public health
  • Politics, ethics and evidence : immunisation and public health policy
  • Avoiding mixed messages : HPV vaccines and the 'cure' for cervical cancer
  • A call for clearer vaccine exemption typology to improve population health
  • Theory and practice in public health ethics : a complex relationship
  • Conclusion : taking forward the debate