Ethics, prevention, and public health / edited by Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij.
| Other author | Dawson, Angus. |
| Other author | Verweij, M. F. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, |
| Description | x, 234 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Issues in biomedical ethics |
| Contents | 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 ... [et al.] -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-231) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007277762 |
| ISBN | 9780199290697 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0199290695 (alk. paper) |