New ethics for the public's health / edited by Dan E. Beauchamp, Bonnie Steinbock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beauchamp, Dan E.

Steinbock, Bonnie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Medical policy.

Public health--Moral and ethical aspects.

Public health.

Physical Description:

xv, 382 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

Most books about ethics and health focus on issues arising from individual patients and their relationships with doctors and other health professionals. More and more, however, the ethical issues of the future are challenges that face whole communities, not just individual patients. This book is an edited collection of readings that addresses these public health challenges. Many of the issues considered - such as policy for alcohol and other drugs, newly emergent epidemics, and violence prevention - are public health concerns beyond the purview of traditional bioethics. Others, such as access to health care, managed care, reproductive technologies, and genetic testing, are covered in bioethics texts, but here they are approached from the distinct viewpoint of public health. The book makes explicit the community perspective of public health, as well as the fields emphasis on prevention. It examines the conceptual issues raised by the public health perspective (i.e., what is meant by community, the common good, and individual autonomy) as well as the policies that can be developed when health problems are approached in population-based, preventive terms.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I: The Scope of Public Health As Ethics

Introduction: Ethical Theory and Public Health

1. Population Perspective

Sick Individuals and Sick Populations

Race or Class Versus Race and Class: Mortality Differentials in the United States

What Explains the Public's Health?-A Call for Epidemiologic Theory

II: Public Health As Community Perspective

2. Community

Community: The Neglected Tradition of Public Health

Security and Welfare

Medicine and Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights

3. Prevention and Its Limits

Public Health As Social Justice

Analysis of Cause-Long-cut to Prevention?

Paternalism

III: Modern Challenges to the Public's Health

4. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

New Directions in Alcohol Policy

Drug Prohibition: A Public Health Perspective

Controlling Tobacco Advertising: The FDA Regulations and the First Amendment

5. Injury and Violence

Energy Damage and the Ten Countermeasure Strategies

Public Health Policy for Preventing Violence

Violence Prevention: Criminal Justice or Public Health?

6. AIDS and Other Newly Emergent Diseases

The AIDS Exception: Privacy vs. Public Health

Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Civil Liberties

Medical Science, Infectious Disease, and the Unity of Humankind

Emerging Diseases and Ecosystem Instability: New Threats to Public Health

7. Justice and Health Care

For and Against Equal Access to Health Care

Market Meditopia: A Glimpse at American Health Care in 2005

Trust and Trustworthy Care in the Managed Care Era

National Health Care Reform Minus Public Health: A Formula for Failure

IV: New Technology and the Public's Health

8. Reproductive Issues

The Resurgence of Eugenics

Infertility As a Public Health Problem: Why Assisted Reproductive Technologies Are Not the Answer.

How Many People Can the Earth Support?

9. Genetic Screening, Testing, and Therapy

Ethical Implications of Screening Asymptomatic Individuals

Prenatal Genetic Testing and Screening: Constructing Needs and Reinforcing Inequities

Germ-Line Gene Therapy

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-76174-1

9786610761746

0-19-975970-7

OCLC:

922969567