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The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Natural disasters and cholera outbreaks. Ebola, SARS, and concerns
over pandemic flu. HIV and AIDS. E. coli outbreaks from
contaminated produce and fast foods. Threats of bioterrorism.
Contamination of compounded drugs. Vaccination refusals and
outbreaks of preventable diseases. These are just some of the
headlines from the last 30-plus years highlighting the essential
roles and responsibilities of public health, all of which come with
ethical issues and the responsibilities they create. Public health
has achieved extraordinary successes. And yet these successes also
bring with them ethical tension. Not all public health successes
are equally distributed in the population; extraordinary health
disparities between rich and poor still exist. The most successful
public health programs sometimes rely on policies that, while
improving public health conditions, also limit individual rights.
Public health practitioners and policymakers face these and other
questions of ethics routinely in their work, and they must navigate
their sometimes competing responsibilities to the health of the
public with other important societal values such as privacy,
autonomy, and prevailing cultural norms. This Oxford Handbook
provides a sweeping and comprehensive review of the current state
of public health ethics, addressing these and numerous other
questions. Taking account of the wide range of topics under the
umbrella of public health and the ethical issues raised by them,
this volume is organized into fifteen sections. It begins with two
sections that discuss the conceptual foundations, ethical tensions,
and ethical frameworks of and for public health and how public
health does its work. The thirteen sections that follow examine the
application of public health ethics considerations and approaches
across a broad range of public health topics. While chapters are
organized into topical sections, each chapter is designed to serve
as a standalone contribution. The book includes 73 chapters
covering many topics from varying perspectives, a recognition of
the diversity of the issues that define public health ethics in the
U.S. and globally. This Handbook is an authoritative and
indispensable guide to the state of public health ethics today.
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