Public Health Ethics Theory, Policy, and Practice [Paperback]

Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together twenty-five articles by leading thinkers in the field, writing on topics that concern both classic and novel problems. They open up new terrain in each area, including tobacco and drug control, infectious disease, environmental and occupational health, the effect of new genetics on the publics health, and the impact of social inequalities on patterns of morbidity and mortality. The volume editors offer a context for discussion with introductory essays for each of the books five sections.

Part I: The Public Health Perspective.
Introduction.
Geoffrey Rose, Sick Individuals and Sick Populations, International Journal of Epidemiology 14(1): March 1985, 32-38.
Dan Beauchamp, Community: The Neglected Tradition of Public Health, Hastings Center Report 15(6): December 1985, 28-36.
Lawrence O. Gostin, Jo Ivey Boufford, Rose Marie Martinez, The Future of The Publics Health: Vision, Values, And Strategies, Health Affairs 23(4): July/August 2004, 96-107.
Mark A. Rothstein, Rethinking the Meaning of Public Health, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 30(2): Summer 2002,144-149.
Part II: Autonomy and Paternalism.
Introduction.
Daniel Wikler, Who Should Be Blamed for Being Sick? Health Education Quarterly 14(1): Spring 1987, 11-25.
Ronald Bayer and Jonathan D. Moreno, Health Promotion: Ethical and Social Dilemmas of Governmental Policy, Health Affairs 15(2): Summer 1986, 72-85.
Robert E. Goodin, No Smoking (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), excerpts from Chapters 1 and 2.
Jacob Sullum, For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (New York: The Free Press, 1998), excerpts from chapters 4, 5, 8.
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