Ethics, prevention, and public health / edited by Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij.

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2007.

xi, 234 pages ; 22 cm.

Introduction: ethics, prevention, and public health / Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij -- Meaning of 'Public' in 'Public Health' / Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson -- Public health and civic republicanism: toward an alternative framework for public health ethics / Bruce Jennings -- Health of the people: the highest law? / Lawrence O. Gostin and Lesley Stone -- Population-level bioethics: mapping a new agenda / Daniel Wikler and Dan W. Brock -- Parental choice and expert knowledge in the debate about MMR and autism / Tom Sorrell -- Ethical issues in applying quantitative models for setting priorities in prevention / Dan W. Brock -- Reasonable limits to public health demands / Mariëtte van den Hoven -- Vertical transmission of infectious diseases and genetic disorder: are the medical and public responses consistent? / Jay A. Jacobsen ... [et al.] -- Herd protection as a public good: vaccination and our obligations to others / Angus Dawson -- Tobacco discouragement: a non-paternalistic argument / Marcel Verweij -- Informed consent and the expansion of newborn screening / Niels Nijsingh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.