International Public Health Policy and Ethics

This book brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced, especially in the international arena.

Public Health Policy and Ethics 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.

World-renowned authors from five countries writing on a broad conception of public healthcutting edge Key insights into policy and ethics dealing with an avian flu epidemic, malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, and gender atypical organization Key analysis of the crisis of water, sanitation, and disease Inclusion of torture, human rights, poverty reduction, and religious imperialism into the public health arena

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Michael Boylan is the Chair of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Marymount University. He is also the author of A Just Society (2004), Ethics Across the Curriculum: A Practice-Based Approach (2003, with James A. Donahue), and Basic Ethics (2000). He received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago.

Inhalt
Morality and Politics.- Introduction: International Public Health: Morality, Politics, Poverty, War, Disease.- Personal or Public Health?.- Exploring the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Rights Approach to International Public Health Ethics.- Moral Interests, Privacy, and Medical Research.- Torture and Public Health.- Exporting the Culture of Life.- Money and Poverty.- International Health Inequalities and Global Justice.- Poverty, Human Rights, and Just Distribution.- Why Should We Help the Poor? Philosophy and Poverty.- Health Care Justice: The Social Insurance Approach.- Investments, Universal Ownership, and Public Health.- Medical Need and Response.- Toward Control of Infectious Disease: Ethical Challenges for a Global Effort.- Shaping Ethical Guidelines for an Influenza Pandemic.- TB Matters More.- Ethics of Management of Gender Atypical Organisation in Children and Adolescents.- Clean Water.