The philosophy of public health / edited by Angus Dawson - Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. - 194 p.

1. Introduction : the philosophy of public health / Angus Dawson --
2. The role of law in public health / Robyn Martin --
3. Luck, risk and prevention / Katherine King --
4. The duty to promote social capital / Patricia Illingworth --
5. On the evaluative space for measuring public health performance / Onyebuchi A. Arah --
6. Global concerns and local arguments : how a localized bioethics may perpetuate injustice / S©ıren Holm --
7. Health in developing countries and our global responsibilities / Gillian Brock --
8. Shared responsibility agreements : causes of contention / Paula Boddington --
9. Anti-paternalism and public health policy : the case of product safety legislation / Kalle Grill --
10. Newborn screening and choosing whether to know / Niels Nijsingh --
11. Choosing to sleep / Benjamin Hale and Lauren Hale --
12. Categories of constraint and avenues of freedom : proposing collective agency for addressing problems of obesity / Catherine A. Womack --
13. Equipoise in public health research / Marcel Verweij --
14. Closing the book on infectious disease : the mischievous consequences for bioethics and for public health / Leslie P. Francis ... [et al.] --
15. The common good argument and HIV prevention / Charlotte Paul --
16. Contagious disease and rights / T.M. Wilkinson.

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