The first suggestions and exchange of ideas for this Workshop began about two years ago when, at the invitation of Professor E Bennett, Director of Health and Safety of the Commission of the European Communities and Professor W W Holland of the Panel of Social Medicine and Epidemiology of the EEC, I asked the Panel to sponsor a project for the study of Ethical Issues in Preventive Medicine. The Panel gave its approval and support and asked Dr L Karhausen, Dr R Blaney, and me to undertake the planning. Since then we have had several meetings in Brussels and have added Professor Heleen Terborgh-Dupuis and Mrs Susie Stewart to our small planning team. The Planning Committee invited many experts to collaborate with us on the project and, as can be seen from the list of participants, they represent many scientific disciplines and many countries. About a year ago we also asked for the help and sponsorship of the NATO Science Council which was generously given. The culmination of our efforts was the Workshop held in Athens in January 1985, the proceedings of which are contained in the present book. The members of the Planning Committee and the participants at the Workshop would like to express thanks to Mr H Durand, Secretary General for NATO Scientific Affairs and Dr M di Lullo, Programme Director of N A TO Scientific Affairs and to Professor Bennett and Professor Holland for all the moral and financial support they have given to this project.

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Session I.- 1 Introductory talk.- 2 Medical ethics and moral philosophy.- Session II.- 3 Evolution and mutation in medical ethics.- 4 Theoretical basis of disease prevention.- Session III.- 5 Development of preventive medicine and health promotion.- 6 Ethical aspects of public health legislation and the role of the state.- Subsidiary presentation Oregon health decisions.- Session IV.- 7 Ethical aspects of the economics of prevention.- 8 Ethical issues in descriptive and analytical epidemiology and in primary prevention.- Session V.- 9 Ethical issues in trials of prevention.- 10 Ethical issues of health promotion, health education, and behavioural control.- Session VI.- 11 Ethical issues in the activities of mass media communication in health education.- 12 Ethical issues in occupational health.- Subsidiary presentation Role of the company physician.- Session VII.- 13 Ethics, prevention, and child health.- 14 Ethical issues in mass screening procedures.- Session VIII.- 15 Ethical aspects of population control.- 16 Methods and procedures of ethical control.- Closing remarks.