Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice
- ISBN-10
- 0195180844
- ISBN-13
- 9780195180848
- Series
- Public Health Ethics
- Category
- Environmental Health
- Pages
- 438
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Ronald Bayer
Description
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 terrain of the ethics of public health. It features topics such as tobacco and drug control, and infectious disease.
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