Ethics and Epidemiology

Steven Coughlin, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Dr. Coughlin was Chair of the committee that drafted the ethics guidelines for the American College of Epidemiology, and he served previously as a senior epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than eleven years.

• Preface Contributors PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Historical Foundations 2. Epidemiology and Informed Consent 3. Solidarity and the Common Good: Social Epidemiology and Relational Ethics in Public Health 4. Understanding the Ethics of Risk as Used in Epidemiology 5. Risk and Precaution: The Ethical Challenges of Translating Epidemiology into Action PART III: METHODS 6. Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Community-Based Intervention Studies PART IV: ISSUES 7. Ethics in Public Health Practice 8. Ethics Issues in Genetic Epidemiology 9. Ethics, Epidemiology, and Changing Perspectives on AIDS 10. Ethics Curricula in Epidemiology 11. Conflicts of Interest

Epidemiology is a quantitative science. In Coughlin and Dawson's Ethics and Epidemiology, we are reminded that each number has a history and meaning, and that epidemiology must work in the service of justice.