Public Health Ethics

Angus Dawson is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University and co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Health Ethics.

• Preface; Introduction Angus Dawson; Part I. Concepts: 1. Resetting the parameters: public health as the foundation for public health ethics Angus Dawson; 2. Health, disease and the goal of public health Bengt Brülde; 3. Selective reproduction, eugenics and public health Stephen Wilkinson; 4. Risk and precaution Stephen John; Part II. Issues: 5. Smoking, health and ethics Richard Ashcroft; 6. Infectious disease control Marcel Verweij; 7. Population screening Ainsley Newson; 8. Vaccination ethics Angus Dawson; 9. Environment, ethics and public health: the climate change dilemma Anthony Kessel and Carolyn Stephens; 10. Public health research ethics: is non-exploitation the new principle for population-based research ethics? John McMillan; 11. Equity and population health: toward a broader bioethics agenda Norman Daniels; 12. Health inequities James Wilson; Index.

'All in all, this book is an excellent read … and very thought provoking. It is a small inexpensive volume that is packed full of critical statements and questions about the ethics of public health that affect us all. I really do commend it to all health care practitioners.' Journal of Occupational Medicine