| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy: Beyond the Neglectful State -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Ethical Values and Deliberative Communities -- 1.2 Defining Health -- 1.3 The Idea of a Public Health Problem -- 1.4 The Context of Public Health Ethics -- 1.4.1 Ageing Societies and the Increasing Prominence of Chronic Disease -- 1.4.2 The Importance of the Social Determinants of Health -- 1.4.3 Rising Costs of Healthcare -- 1.4.4 The Return of Communicable Diseases |
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1.4.5 Systemic Interconnections and Clustering of Risk Factors -- 1.5 A Brief Map of What Is to Come -- PART I PHILOSOPHY FOR PUBLIC POLICY -- 2: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Complexity -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Rise of Evidence-Based Medicine -- 2.3 From Evidence-Based Medicine to Evidence-Based Policy? -- 2.4 Randomization and Internal Validity -- 2.5 External Validity -- 2.6 Conclusion, and a Way Forward -- 3: Internal and External Validity in Ethical Reasoning -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Linear Model in Healthcare Research -- 3.3 Moral Philosophy and the Linear Model |
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3.4 Thought Experiments -- 3.5 Internal and External Validity -- 3.6 Internal Validity in Thought Experiments -- 3.7 Reproducibility, Fiction, and Thought Experiments -- 3.8 The Problem of External Validity -- 3.8.1 Normative Contextual Variance -- 3.8.2 Non-Transferabilityof Causal Structures -- 3.9 Conclusion -- 4: Ethics for Complex Systems -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Parts, Wholes, and Complexity -- 4.3 Stocks, Flows, and Models -- 4.4 A Complex Systems Approach to Public Health Policy -- 4.5 The Normative Implications of Complex Systems -- 4.5.1 The Usefulness of Abstraction |
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4.5.2 Is Moral Reality Simple? -- 4.6 Performativity in Complex Systems -- 4.7 Conclusion -- PART II: BEYOND THE NEGLECTFUL STATE: An Ethical Framework For Public Health -- 5: Paternalism, Autonomy, and the Common Good: Infringing Liberty for the Sake of Health -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Rethinking Autonomy -- 5.3 Paternalism, Coercion, and Government Action -- 5.4 The Very Idea of Paternalistic Policies -- 5.5 The Unavoidable Coerciveness of States -- 5.6 Against Antipaternalism -- 5.7 Justifying Public Health Policies to which a Minority Object -- 5.8 Conclusion -- 6: The Right to Public Health |
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6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Justifying Rights Claims -- 6.3 Arguing for the Right to Public Health -- 6.4 The Right to Public Health as a Right to Risk Reduction -- 6.5 Why the Right to Public Health is Compatible with Reductions of Liberty -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7: Which Risks to Health Matter Most? -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Prevention, Treatment, and Rescue -- 7.3 Pairwise Comparison and Aggregation -- 7.4 Priority to the Worst Off -- 7.5 Capacity to Benefit and Opportunity Costs -- 7.6 Time and Claims -- 7.7 Risk and Claims -- 7.8 The Prevention Paradox -- 7.9 Measuring Claims -- 7.10 Conclusion |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking book argues that philosophy is not just useful, but vital, for thinking coherently about priorities in health policy and public policy |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed April 29, 2022) |
| Subject |
Public health -- Philosophy
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Medical policy -- Philosophy
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Public health -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192657855 |
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0192657852 |
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