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• Dedication
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Introduction
• Consensuses
• Justifying public health interventions
• Frameworks and human rights
• The structure of this book
• 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
• Principlism
• Virtue ethics
• Concluding remarks
• 3: Liberal Political Philosophy
• Liberalism and the liberal objection
• 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: Public Health Activities
• Introduction to Part II
• 5: Epidemiology
• Theoretical challenges to epidemiology
• Ethical issues in epidemiologic research
• Epidemiology and virtue ethics
• Concluding remarks
• 6: Health Concepts and Promotion
• Is the nature of health important in public health ethics?
• First conceptual claim: ‘health’ is ambiguous
• Second conceptual claim: health is an evaluative concept
• The practical impact of the conceptual claims
• Concluding remarks
• 7: Health Promotion as Behaviour Modification
• Health promotion as behaviour change
• Ethics and behaviour modification techniques
• Justifying interventions to modify health behaviours
• Concluding remarks
• 8: Harm Reduction
• Defining 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