Ethics, prevention, and public health / edited by Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij - Oxford : New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007 - x, 234 p. ; 22 cm. - Issues in biomedical ethics .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-231) and index

Introduction: ethics, prevention, and public health / Meaning of'Public' in'Public Health' / Public health and civic republicanism: toward an alternative framework for public health ethics / Health of the people: the highest law? / Population-level bioethics: mapping a new agenda / Parental choice and expert knowledge in the debate about MMR and autism / Ethical issues in applying quantitative models for setting priorities in prevention / Reasonable limits to public health demands / Vertical transmission of infectious diseases and genetic disorder: are the medical and public responses consistent? / Herd protection as a public good: vaccination and our obligations to others / Tobacco discouragement: a non-paternalistic argument / Informed consent and the expansion of newborn screening / Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij -- Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson -- Bruce Jennings -- Lawrence O. Gostin and Lesley Stone -- Daniel Wikler and Dan W. Brock -- Tom Sorrell -- Dan W. Brock -- Mariette van den Hoven -- Jay A. Jacobsen ... [et al.] -- Angus Dawson -- Marcel Verweij -- Niels Nijsingh

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Public health--Moral and ethical aspects
Public Health Practice