New Ethics for the Public's Health

by Beauchamp, Dan E.; Steinbock, Bonnie

• ISBN13: 9780195124385
• ISBN10: 0195124383
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

An anthology on the ethical aspects of public health with ample introductory material and commentary by the editors. Some topics, such as policy for alcohol and other drugs, newly emergent epidemics, and violence prevention, are missing in traditional bioethics texts. Others, such as access tohealth care, manages care, reproductive technologies and genetic testing, are approached from the distinct viewpoint of public health. This book will be used as a text in public health programs and in bioethics courses that emphasize the community perspective of health.

Table of Contents

I The Scope of Public Health As Ethics
Introduction: Ethical Theory and Public Health	3	(22)
Dan Beauchamp
Bonnie Steinbock
Population Perspective	25	(28)
Sick Individuals and Sick Populations	28	(11)
Geoffrey Rose
Race or Class Versus Race and Class: Mortality Differentials in the United States	39	(6)
Vicente Navarro
What Explains the Public's Health?---A Call for Epidemiologic Theory	45	(8)
Nancy Krieger
Sally Zierler
II Public Health As Community Perspective
Community	53	(42)
Community: The Neglected Tradition of Public Health	57	(11)
Dan E. Beauchamp
Security and Welfare	68	(15)
Michael Walzer
Medicine and Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights	83	(12)
Jonathan M. Mann
Prevention and Its Limits	95	(36)
Public Health As Social Justice	101	(9)
Dan E. Beauchamp
Analysis of Cause---Long-cut to Prevention?	110	(5)
J. H. Renwick
Paternalism	115	(16)
Gerald Dworkin
III Modern Challenges to the Public's Health
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs	131	(46)
New Directions in Alcohol Policy	135	(15)
James F. Mosher
David H. Jernigan
Drug Prohibition: A Public Health Perspective	150	(14)
Bonnie Steinbock
Controlling Tobacco Advertising: The FDA Regulations and the First Amendment	164	(13)
Leonard H. Glantz
Injury and Violence	177	(30)
Energy Damage and the Ten Countermeasure Strategies	180	(8)
William Haddon, Jr.
Public Health Policy for Preventing Violence	188	(12)
James A. Mercy
Mark L. Rosenberg
Kenneth E. Powell
Claire V. Broome
William L. Roper
Violence Prevention: Criminal Justice or Public Health?	200	(7)
Mark H. Moore
AIDS and Other Newly Emergent Diseases	207	(44)
The AIDS Exception: Privacy vs. Public Health	211	(14)
Chandler Burr
Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Civil Liberties	225	(15)
Ronald Bayer
Laurence Dupuis
Medical Science, Infectious Disease, and the Unity of Humankind	240	(4)
Joshua Lederberg
Emerging Diseases and Ecosystem Instability: New Threats to Public Health	244	(7)
Paul R. Epstein
Justice and Health Care	251	(48)
For and Against Equal Access to Health Care	255	(15)
Amy Gutmann
Market Meditopia: A Glimpse at American Health Care in 2005	270	(5)
Larry R. Churchill
Trust and Trustworthy Care in the Managed Care Era	275	(10)
Bradford H. Gray
National Health Care Reform Minus Public Health: A Formula for Failure	285	(14)
Phyllis Freeman
Anthony Robbins
IV New Technology and the Public's Health
Reproductive Issues	299	(40)
The Resurgence of Eugenics	303	(11)
Philip R. Reilly
Infertility As a Public Health Problem: Why Assisted Reproductive Technologies Are Not the Answer	314	(16)
Elizabeth Heitman
How Many People Can the Earth Support?	330	(9)
Joel E. Cohen
Genetic Screening, Testing, and Therapy	339	(40)
Ethical Implications of Screening Asymptomatic Individuals	344	(9)
Norman Fost
Prenatal Genetic Testing and Screening: Constructing Needs and Reinforcing Inequities	353	(13)
Abby Lippman
Germ-Line Gene Therapy	366	(13)
LeRoy Walters
Julie Gage Palmer
Index	379