| Autore |
Holland Stephen (Stephen Michael), <1963->
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| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (551 p.)
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| Disciplina |
616.10928374
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| Soggetto topico |
Public health - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| 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
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910157428103321 |
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Bioethics : a philosophical introduction / / Stephen Holland
