New Ethics for the Public's Health

Book Overview

Most books about ethics and health focus on issues arising from individual patients and their relationships with doctors and other health professionals. More and more, however, ethical issues are challenges that face entire communities, not just individual patients. This book is an edited collection of readings that addresses these public health challenges. Many of the issues considered, such as policy for alcohol and other drugs, newly emergent epidemics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195124391
• ISBN13: 9780195124392
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"