What Makes Health Public?: A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health

by Coggon, John

• ISBN13: 9781107016392
• ISBN10: 1107016398
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-01
• Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public health' and argues why and how normative analyses in public health are inquiries in political theory. The arguments expose and explain the political claims inherent in key works in public health ethics. Coggon then develops and defends a particular understanding of political liberalism, describing its implications for critical study of public health policies and practices. Covering important works from legal, moral, and political theory, public health, public health law and ethics, and bioethics, this is a foundational text for scholars, practitioners and policy bodies interested in freedoms, rights and responsibilities relating to health.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Basic Concepts and Public Health

Health, normativity, and politics

The public, and things being public

The seven faces of public health

Public health policy

Public health law and ethics

Conclusion to Part I

Evaluating Evaluations: Making Health Public

Analysis in the political realm

Making health public

Conclusion to Part II

Tackling Responsibility: Liberal Citizens as Subjects and Sovereigns

Liberal citizens: defining non-individuated individuals

Health made public: rights, R=responsibilities and shared concerns

Conclusion

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