What Makes Health Public?

Informationen zum Autor John Coggon is a research fellow in the School of Law! University of Manchester. His research focuses principally on legal! moral and political issues relating to health and welfare. He was the winner of the 2006 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research! awarded by the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics at the University of Southern California! in conjunction with the International Association of Bioethics. From 2007 to 2010 he held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship. Klappentext John Coggon analyses important ethical! legal and political claims related to public health and health regulation. Zusammenfassung With a focus on the literature in ethics! law! politics! public health and health policy! John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' His argument will interest those working on health-related ethical! legal and political issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Basic Concepts and Public Health: 1. Health! normativity! and politics; 2. The public! and things being public; 3. The seven faces of public health; 4. Public health policy; 5. Public health law and ethics; 6. Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Evaluating Evaluations: Making Health Public: 7. Analysis in the political realm; 8. Making health public; 9. Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Tackling Responsibility: Liberal Citizens as Subjects and Sovereigns: 10. Liberal citizens: defining non-individuated individuals; 11. Health made public: rights! R=responsibilities and shared concerns; 12. Conclusion.

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John Coggon is a research fellow in the School of Law, University of Manchester. His research focuses principally on legal, moral and political issues relating to health and welfare. He was the winner of the 2006 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research, awarded by the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics at the University of Southern California, in conjunction with the International Association of Bioethics. From 2007 to 2010 he held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship.

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John Coggon analyses important ethical, legal and political claims related to public health and health regulation.

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With a focus on the literature in ethics, law, politics, public health and health policy, John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' His argument will interest those working on health-related ethical, legal and political issues.

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Introduction; Part I. Basic Concepts and Public Health: 1. Health, normativity, and politics; 2. The public, and things being public; 3. The seven faces of public health; 4. Public health policy; 5. Public health law and ethics; 6. Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Evaluating Evaluations: Making Health Public: 7. Analysis in the political realm; 8. Making health public; 9. Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Tackling Responsibility: Liberal Citizens as Subjects and Sovereigns: 10. Liberal citizens: defining non-individuated individuals; 11. Health made public: rights, R=responsibilities and shared concerns; 12. Conclusion.