The Philosophy of Public Health
eBook - ePub

The Philosophy of Public Health

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Philosophy of Public Health

About this book

Public health is a particular area of medical practice that raises a series of philosophical issues that require urgent discussion. The philosophy of public health includes metaphysical questions such as, what do we mean by 'public' in public health? How ought we to conceptualise the idea of 'populations'? Are they merely aggregations of individuals? It also includes epistemological questions such as, what methods are most appropriate for thinking about public health? How do empirical and normative issues relate to each other? Controversial ethical, political and social issues, including those relating to vaccinations, the threat of pandemics and possible restrictions to individual liberties, public health research, screening and obesity policy should also be considered. This volume includes a diverse set of papers exploring a number of the most important theoretical and practical issues that arise across the whole field of the philosophy of public health.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781317021452
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures and Table
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Introduction: the Philosophy of Public Health
  8. 2 The Role of Law in Public Health
  9. 3 Luck, Risk and Prevention
  10. 4 The Duty to Promote Social Capital
  11. 5 On the Evaluative Space for Measuring Public Health Performance
  12. 6 Global Concerns and Local Arguments: How a Localized Bioethics may Perpetuate Injustice
  13. 7 Health in Developing Countries and Our Global Responsibilities
  14. 8 Shared Responsibility Agreements: Causes of Contention
  15. 9 Anti-Paternalism and Public Health Policy: The Case of Product Safety Legislation
  16. 10 Newborn Screening and Choosing Whether to Know
  17. 11 Choosing to Sleep
  18. 12 Categories of Constraint and Avenues of Freedom: Proposing Collective Agency for Addressing Problems of Obesity
  19. 13 Equipoise in Public Health Research
  20. 14 Closing the Book on Infectious Disease: The Mischievous Consequences for Bioethics and for Public Health
  21. 15 The Common Good Argument and HIV Prevention
  22. 16 Contagious Disease and Rights
  23. Index

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