Public health ethics : key concepts and issues in policy and practice

Section 1 Concepts; Chapter 1 Resetting the parameters: Public health as the foundation for public health ethics; Chapter 2 Health, disease and the goal of public health; Chapter 3 Selective reproduction, eugenics and public health; Chapter 4 Risk and precaution; Section 2 Issues; Chapter 5 Smoking, health and ethics; Chapter 6. Infectious disease control; Chapter 7 Population screening; Chapter 8 Vaccination ethics; Chapter 9 Environment, ethics and public health: the climate change dilemma; Chapter 10 Public health research ethics: is non-exploitation the new principle for population-based research ethics?; Chapter 11 Equity and population health: toward a broader bioethics agenda.

Presents original, critical and diverse perspectives on topics spanning the breadth of this emerging new field.