New Ethics for the Public's Health

New Ethics for the Public's Health
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 399
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ISBN-10 : 9780199759705
ISBN-13 : 0199759707
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Book Synopsis New Ethics for the Public's Health by : Dan E. Beauchamp

Download or read book New Ethics for the Public's Health written by Dan E. Beauchamp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-29 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, ethical issues are challenges that face entire 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 field's 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.

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