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Enthusiastically received at New Orleans this paper merits careful attention. Dr. Ravenel asserts that the young man in the army was a greater health risk than the same man in civil life. The large-roomed barrack must go, and also unpreparedness, military and civil. The woful showing of draft rejections is a form of civil unpreparedness that must be amended.

The aim of preventive medicine is the absence of disease, either by preventing the occurrence of a disease or by halting a disease and averting resulting complications after its onset. Preventive medicine can be practised by governmental agencies, primary care physicians and the individual himself.

Session I -- 1 Introductory talk -- 2 Medical ethics and moral philosophy -- Session II -- 3 Evolution and mutation in medical ethics -- 4 Theoretical basis of disease prevention -- Session III -- 5 Development of preventive medicine and health promotion -- 6 Ethical aspects of public health legislation and the role of the state -- Subsidiary presentation Oregon health decisions -- Session IV -- 7 Ethical aspects of the economics of prevention -- 8 Ethical issues in descriptive and analytical epidemiology and in primary prevention -- Session V -- 9 Ethical issues in trials of prevention -- 10 Ethical issues of health promotion, health education, and behavioural control -- Session VI -- 11 Ethical issues in the activities of mass media communication in health education -- 12 Ethical issues in occupational health -- Session VII -- 13 Ethics, prevention, and child health -- 14 Ethical issues in mass screening procedures -- Session VIII -- 15 Ethical aspects of population control -- 16 Methods and procedures of ethical control -- Closing remarks.

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