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Ethics, prevention, and public health /
In twelve original papers notable ethicists explore various issues raised by public health practice - an area that has received scant attention in published literature. They use the resources of ethical theory to illuminate important theoretical and practical topics, including the nature of public h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Issues in biomedical ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: ethics, prevention, and public health / Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij
- Meaning of 'Public' in 'Public Health' / Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson
- Public health and civic republicanism: toward an alternative framework for public health ethics / Bruce Jennings
- Health of the people: the highest law? / Lawrence O. Gostin and Lesley Stone
- Population-level bioethics: mapping a new agenda / Daniel Wikler and Dan W. Brock
- Parental choice and expert knowledge in the debate about MMR and autism / Tom Sorrell
- Ethical issues in applying quantitative models for setting priorities in prevention / Dan W. Brock
- Reasonable limits to public health demands / Mariëtte van den Hoven
- Vertical transmission of infectious diseases and genetic disorder: are the medical and public responses consistent? / Jay A. Jacobsen [and others]
- Herd protection as a public good: vaccination and our obligations to others / Angus Dawson
- Tobacco discouragement: a non-paternalistic argument / Marcel Verweij
- Informed consent and the expansion of newborn screening / Niels Nijsingh.