Public health ethics / / Stephen Holland

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910157428103321
• Autore: Holland Stephen (Stephen Michael), <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (551 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.10928374
• Soggetti: Public health - Moral and ethical aspects; Medical ethics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; Introduction; Consensuses; Justifying public health interventions; Frameworks and human rights; The structure of this book; Part I: Moral and Political Philosophy; 1: Consequentialism; Defining consequentialism and utilitarianism; The naïve utilitarian view of public health; Concluding remarks; 2: Non-consequentialism; Deontology; Principlism; Virtue ethics; Concluding remarks; 3: Liberal Political Philosophy; Liberalism and the liberal objection; Liberalism and Mill's harm principle; Freedom: positive and negative conceptions; Concluding remarks; 7: Health Promotion as Behaviour ModificationHealth promotion as behaviour change; Ethics and behaviour modification techniques; Justifying interventions to modify health behaviours; Concluding remarks; 8: Harm Reduction; Defining harm reduction; The ethics of harm reduction; Harm reduction: some cases; Concluding remarks; 9: Immunization; Vaccination ethics; Liberalism and the harm principle; The duty not to infect others; Free-riding; Concluding remarks; 10: Screening; Screening programmes; Generic issues; Benefit; Concluding remarks; Concluding Remarks; The re-description problem; Public health ethics and philosophyReferences; Index; End User License Agreement
• Sommario/riassunto: How far should we go in protecting and promoting public health? Can we force people to give up unhealthy habits and make healthier ; choices? Should we stop treating smokers who refuse to give up smoking, for example, or put a tax on fatty foods and ban vending machines in schools to address the ?obesity epidemic?? Or can we nudge people towards healthy options without compromising their freedom to choose? Such questions are at the heart of public health ethics. In this second edition of his well respected textbook, Stephen Holland shows that to understand and debate these issues requires philos