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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: the Philosophy of Public Health -- 2 The Role of Law in Public Health -- 3 Luck, Risk and Prevention -- 4 The Duty to Promote Social Capital -- 5 On the Evaluative Space for Measuring Public Health Performance -- 6 Global Concerns and Local Arguments: How a Localized Bioethics may Perpetuate Injustice -- 7 Health in Developing Countries and Our Global Responsibilities -- 8 Shared Responsibility Agreements: Causes of Contention -- 9 Anti-Paternalism and Public Health Policy: The Case of Product Safety Legislation -- 10 Newborn Screening and Choosing Whether to Know -- 11 Choosing to Sleep -- 12 Categories of Constraint and Avenues of Freedom: Proposing Collective Agency for Addressing Problems of Obesity -- 13 Equipoise in Public Health Research -- 14 Closing the Book on Infectious Disease: The Mischievous Consequences for Bioethics and for Public Health -- 15 The Common Good Argument and HIV Prevention -- 16 Contagious Disease and Rights

"Public health ethics is a discipline concerned with the health of the public or a population as a whole, rather than focusing on the individual. This book introduces a number of this new field's central concepts and explores the key and controversial issues arising. Topics covered include the nature of public health ethics, the concepts of disease and prevention, risk and precaution, health inequalities and justice, screening, vaccination and disease control, smoking and issues relating to the environment and public health. With insightful contributions from leading experts, Public Health Ethics presents thought-provoking reviews of these topics, at the same time as encouraging and identifying areas for future discussion in this emerging discipline. This is a valuable addition to the library of anyone working in the fields of public health, health policy, ethics, philosophy and social science"--

Recent policy in relation to clinical research proposals in the UK has distinguished between two types of review: scientific and ethical. This distinction has been formally enshrined in the recent changes to research ethics committee (REC) structure and operating procedures, introduced as the UK response to the EU Directive on clinical trials. Recent reviews and recommendations have confirmed the place of the distinction and the separate review processes. However, serious reservations can be mounted about the science/ethics distinction and the policy of separate review that has been built upon it. We argue here that, first, the science/ethics distinction is incoherent, and, second, that RECs should not only be permitted to consider a study's science, but that they have anobligation do so.

This Palgrave Pivot examines refugee camps in the EU, Australia, and their border zones. The approach is interdisciplinary, comprising perspectives of history, ethics, political science, literature, and health. The book argues that current practice of accommodating refugees is arbitrary and disempowering, ranging from strict regulation within nation states to detrimental conditions in extraterritorial camps. It instead proposes to increase public scrutiny of refugee camps, to enforce existing laws, and to endorse ethical place-making. With its contributions from a wide range of fields, this edited volume will be of interest to academics and students in public health, ethics, sociology, politics, and related fields. Oliver Razum is Dean of the School of Public Health at Bielefeld University, Germany, and heads the Department of Epidemiology & International Public Health as full professor. He has conducted research on migrant and refugee health from a public health perspective for more than 25 years. Lisa Eckenwiler is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at George Mason University, USA. Her research focuses on vulnerable populations, especially in humanitarian settings, and structural health injustice. She is Vice President of the International Association of Bioethics and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. Verina Wild is Professor of Medical Ethics at Augsburg University, Germany. She works in the area of medical ethics/bioethics, public health ethics and global health ethics, with a special focus on vulnerability, justice and population health. Angus Dawson is Professor of Bioethics and Director of Sydney Health Ethics at The University of Sydney School of Public Health, Australia. He is working in public health ethics with a research interest in ethical issues and dilemmas in international contexts.

Purpose and setting: Infrastructure is a global multi-trillion dollar market presenting many opportunities and risks for sustainable development. This article aims to foster better conceptualisation of the connections and tensions between infrastructure policy and public health in the light of the Sustain-able Development Goals, especially 'good health and wellbeing' (number 3) and 'industry, innovation and infrastructure' (number 9), based on findings from interviews with a purposive sample of senior practicing Australian infrastructure policy makers. Principal findings: We use an institutional framework to explore the ideas, actors, rules and mandates, and procedures underpinning the inclusion of health in infrastructure policy. Informants defined infrastructure as the construction and provision of services that facilitate economic, environmental and social outcomes. The tendency to default to infrastructure as essential for economic success has fundamental challenges for the SDGs, particularly the politically driven pursuit of 'mega-project' legacies, sector-specific siloed governance arrangements, and inadequate conceptualisations of costs and benefits. Conclusions: Public health and infrastructure policy are mutually re-enforcing given they both concern the public interest with implications for all 17 SDGs. Positioning health and wellbeing as fundamental societal outcomes from infrastructure decisions would go a long way to helping achieve the SDGs. ; This research was funded by a Sydney University Kickstart Grant, funded by the Balnaves Foundation. Patrick Harris is funded by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship (APP1090644).