Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health

by Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson

Book Overview

Public health is an important and fast-developing areas of ethical discussion. In this volume a range of issues in public health ethics are explored using the resources of moral theory, political philosophy, philosphy of science, applied ethics, law, and economics.

The twelve original papers presented consider numerous ethical issues within public health ethics. To what extent can the public good or the public interests justify state interventions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199290695
• ISBN13: 9780199290697
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"