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Sustaining Surveillance: The Importance of Information for Public Health (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Sustaining Surveillance: The Importance of Information for Public Health (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Public Health Ethics Analysis, 6
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This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and
political philosophy of public health surveillance based on
reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance,
and others potentially affected by surveillance practices. Public
health surveillance aims to identify emerging health trends,
population health trends, treatment efficacy, and methods of health
promotion--all apparently laudatory goals. Nonetheless, as with
anti-terrorism surveillance, public health surveillance raises
complex questions about privacy, political liberty, and justice
both of and in data use. Individuals and groups can be chilled in
their personal lives, stigmatized or threatened, and used for the
benefit of others when health information is wrongfully collected
or used. Transparency and openness about data use, public
involvement in decisions, and just distribution of the benefits of
surveillance are core elements in the justification of surveillance
practices. Understanding health surveillance practices, the
concerns it raises, and how to respond to them is critical not only
to ethical and trustworthy but also to publicly acceptable and
ultimately sustainable surveillance practices. The book is of
interest to scholars and practitioners of the ethics and politics
of public health, bioethics, privacy and data technology, and
health policy. These issues are ever more pressing in pandemic
times, where misinformation can travel quickly and suspicions about
disease spread, treatment efficacy, and vaccine safety can have
devastating public health effects.
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