Public Health Ethics

As it seeks to protect the health of populations, public health inevitably confronts a range of critical ethical challenges. This volume brings together 25 articles that open up the new terrain of the ethics of public health. The topics concern both classic and novel problems, including tobacco and drug control, infectious disease, environmental and occupational disease, the effect of the new gentics on public health, and the impact of social inequalities on patterns of morbidity and mortality. Introductory essays by the editors provide readers with a context for each of the volume's six parts.