The Health of the Republic: Epidemics, Medicine, and Moralism as Challenges to Democracy

by Dan E. Beauchamp

Book Overview

A book about the link between equality and the health of the American republic, the health of its citizens as well as of its democratic institutions. It translates the public health viewpoint into the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877225583
• ISBN13: 9780877225584
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Health, Politics, and Ethics - an essential combination

Dan Beauchamp is a political scientist who understands that politics and ethics are essential determinants of public health. More specifically, Beauchamp clarifies why "more speech" and "more privacy" are essential to resolution of the most pressing life-style health problems facing contemporary societies. The public health will not be advanced by the simple expenditure of funds....and will not be resolved absent the active participation of citizens in public debate over values and politics. This book presents a different view of health issues, a view sadly missing in present day health care debates.