When we consider the literature that has been produced exploring approaches to public
health ethics, it is rare to find any mention of solidarity. One obvious conclusion is that …

Public health ethics can be seen both as the application of principles and norms to guide the
practice of public health and as a process for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical …

Objectives To explore and compare the knowledge, attitudes and experiences of doctors,
dentists and veterinarians (as prescribers) in relation to antibiotic use and antibiotic …

Public health is an important and fast-developing area of ethical discussion. In this volume a
range of issues in public health ethics are explored using the resources of moral theory …

'Public health'is a contested concept. It is presented and used in a variety of ways by public
health practitioners, researchers and commentators. In this chapter we aim to do two things …

In this paper I argue that bioethics is in crisis and that it will not have a future unless it begins
to embrace a more Socratic approach to its leading assumptions. The absence of a critical …

Public health ethics is a discipline concerned with the health of the public or a population as
a whole, rather than focusing on the individual. This book introduces a number of this new …

Vaccination of health care workers (HCW) in long-term care results in indirect protection of
patients who are at high-risk for influenza. The voluntary uptake of influenza vaccination …

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists
working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health …

Ethical issues arise in discussion of both the content and implementation of collective
immunisation programmes. In this paper we propose and discuss seven principles that may …