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• Cover
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Part I: Moral and Political Philosophy
• Introduction to Part I
• 1 Consequentialism
• Defining consequentialism and utilitarianism
• The naïve utilitarian view of public health
• Concluding remarks
• 2 Non-consequentialism
• Deontology
• Virtue ethics
• Principlism
• Concluding remarks
• 3 Liberal Political Philosophy
• Liberalism
• Liberalism and Mill’s harm principle
• Freedom: positive and negative conceptions
• Concluding remarks
• 4 Beyond Traditional Liberalism
• Libertarian paternalism
• Non-liberal political philosophy: communitarianism
• Concluding remarks
• Part I Summary
• Part II: Fundamental Aspects of Public Health
• Introduction to Part II
• 5 Epidemiology and Public Health Information
• Theoretical challenges to epidemiology
• Epidemiology, health information and ethics
• Ethics and governance of public health information
• Concluding remarks
• 6 Health Concepts
• Is the nature of health important in public health ethics?
• First conceptual claim: ‘health’ is ambiguous
• Second conceptual claim: health is an evaluative concept
• Public health and the ambiguous nature of ‘health’
• Concluding remarks
• Part III: Public Health Activities
• Introduction to Part III
• 7 Health Promotion as Behaviour Modification
• What is ‘health promotion’?
• Health promotion as behaviour change
• Ethics and behaviour modification techniques
• Justifying interventions to modify health behaviours
• Concluding remarks
• 8 Harm Reduction
• Introducing 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 philosophy
• References
• Index
• End User License Agreement