Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.
- Highlights ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health
- Is a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics
- Increases awareness and understanding of public health ethics and the value of ethical analysis in public health practice
Part of the book series: Public Health Ethics Analysis (PHES, volume 3)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Public Health Ethics
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Topics in Public Health Ethics
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Back Matter
Keywords
- HIV criminalization
- anthrax vaccine for children
- black-white infant mortality
- chronic disease prevention and health promotion
- corporate sponsorship in public health
- critical care triage during a pandemic
- development of public health ethics
- disease prevention and control
- ethical issues in environmental and occupational public health
- ethical issues in resource allocation
- ethics of HIV testing policies
- mandatory vaccination
- non-adherence to treatment
- priority setting in healthcare
- public health ethics
- storage and ownership of newborn bloodspots
- vulnerability and marginalized population
About this book
This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few practical training resources for public health practitioners, especially resources which include discussion of realistic cases which are likely to arise in the practice of public health. This work discusses these issues on a case to case basis and helps create awareness and understanding of the ethics of public health care. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, including front-line workers, field epidemiology trainers and trainees, managers, planners, and decision makers who have an interest in learning about how to integrate ethical analysis into their day to day public health practice. The casebook is also useful to schools of public health and public health students as well as to academic ethicists who can use the book to teach public health ethics and distinguish it from clinical and research ethics.
Reviews
“This work is the third volume in Springer’s ‘Public Health Ethics Analysis’ series. … The most recent volume examines one of the fastest growing subdisciplines of bioethics—public health ethics—from a global perspective. … Each chapter begins with an introduction and discussion of each topic, accompanied by case studies, discussion questions, and additional references for further investigation. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals.” (M. L. Charleroy, Choice, Vol. 54 (5), January, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Drue H. Barrett, Ph.D., Lead, Public Health Ethics Unit, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Gail Bolan, M.D., Director for the Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention (DSTDP), National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Angus Dawson, Ph.D., Professor of Bioethics and Director, Centre for Values, Ethics & the Law in Medicine, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney , Australia
Leonard Ortmann, Ph.D., Senior Public Health Ethics Advisor, Public Health Ethics Unit, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Andreas Reis, M.D., M.Sc., Technical Officer, Global Health Ethics, Department of Knowledge, Ethics and Research, World HealthOrganization, Genève, Switzerland
Carla Saenz, Ph.D., Bioethics Regional Advisor, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
Editors: Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Angus Dawson, Carla Saenz, Andreas Reis, Gail Bolan
Series Title: Public Health Ethics Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23847-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23846-3Published: 20 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79538-6Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23847-0Published: 12 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-6680
Series E-ISSN: 2211-6699
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 329
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Ethics