Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice

by Ronald Bayer

Book Overview

Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together twenty-five articles by leading thinkers in the field, writing on topics that concern both classic and novel problems. They open up new terrain in each area, including tobacco and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195180852
• ISBN13: 9780195180855
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"