This second edition of International Public Health Policy and Ethics complements the popular first edition with contemporary problems in international public health. It brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced especially in the international arena. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the group? How do policy concerns and clinical practice work together and work against each other? Can the boundaries of public health be extended to include social ills that are amenable to group-dynamic solutions? What about political issues? How can international finance make an impact? These are some of the crucial questions that form the core of this volume of original essays sure to cause practitioners to engage in a critical re-evaluation of the role of ethics in public health policy. With a targeted new essay dealing with COVID and public health issues in Africa this second edition provides a resource building on the first edition.

This second edition complements the popular first edition with contemporary problems in international public health Targeted new essay dealing with COVID and public health issues in Africa The only book dealing with extensive theoretical issues in public health along with practical international perspectives

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Michael Boylan is the author of 25 single or co-authored works in philosophy as well as 12 edited books. He is also the author of 150 essays in journals and book chapters. He has been an invited lecturer at top universities in 15 countries on 5 continents. His most recent books are: Natural Human Rights, Basic Ethics, 3rd ed., Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Fiction can Act as Philosophy, The Process of Argument, 3rd ed., and with Springer, Ethical Public Health Policy Within Pandemics **and Teaching Ethics with Three Philosophical Novels, 2nd ed.

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This second edition of International Public Health Policy and Ethics complements the popular first edition with contemporary problems in international public health. It brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced - especially in the international arena. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the group? How do policy concerns and clinical practice work together and work against each other? Can the boundaries of public health be extended to include social ills that are amenable to group-dynamic solutions? What about political issues? How can international finance make an impact? These are some of the crucial questions that form the core of this volume of original essays sure to cause practitioners to engage in a critical re-evaluation of the role of ethics in public health policy. With a targeted new essay dealing with COVID and public health issues in Africa this second edition provides a resource building on the first edition.

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Chapter 1.- Introduction: International Public Health: Morality, Politics, Poverty, War, Disease (Michael Boylan).- Part 1: Morality and Politics.- Chapter 2. The Extended Community Worldview Imperative: Becoming a Citizen of the World (Michael Boylan).- Chapter 3. Personal or Public Health (Muireann Quigley).- Chapter 4. Exploring the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Rights Approach to International Public Health Ethics (Kristen Hessler).- Chapter 5. Moral Interests, Privacy, and Medical Research (Deryck Beyleveld).- Chapter 6. Torture and Public Health (Wanda Teays).- Chapter 7. Exporting the Culture of Life (Laura Purdy).- Part 2: Money and Poverty.- Chapter 8. International Health Inequalities and Global Justice' (Norman Daniels).- Chapter 9. Poverty, Human Rights, and Just Distribution (John-Stewart Gordon).- Chapter 10. Why Should We Help the Poor? Philosophy and Poverty (Christian Illies).- Chapter 11. Health Care Justice: The Social Insurance Approach (David Cummiskey).- Chapter 12. Investments, Universal Ownership, and Public Health (Henrik Syse).- Part 3: Medical Need and Response.- Chapter 13. Toward Control of Infectious Disease: Ethical Challenges for a Global Effort (Margaret P. Battin).- Chapter 14. Shaping Ethical Guidelines for an Influenza Pandemic (Rosemarie Tong).- Chapter 15. TB Matters More (Michael J. Selgelid).- Chapter 16. Ethics of Management of Gender Atypical Organization in Children and Adolescents (Simona Giordano).- Chapter 17. Clean Water (Michael Boylan).- Part 4: Contemporary Challenges.- Chapter 18. What, If Anything, Should Count as Elder Abuse? (Felicia Nimue Ackerman).- Chapter 19. Contemporary Public Health Challenges in Africa (Takunda Matose).- Chapter 20. The use of DNR in Pandemic Treatment (Stephen Latham).- Chapter 21. CRISPR and Cut and Paste Genetics (Sahotra Sarkar).