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Preventive Medicine Between Obligation and Aspiration
Marcel Verweij
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Description for Preventive Medicine Between Obligation and Aspiration
Hardback. Offers a study of ethical questions regarding mass screening, vaccination, and health policy programmes. This book provides an overview of moral problems in preventive medicine. It argues that moral concerns about prevention cannot be adequately grasped in terms of strict and binding moral norms. It is intended for professionals in public health. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1030.
Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration is a study of ethical questions regarding mass screening, vaccination, and health policy programmes. These interventions aim to enhance public health but may also constrain personal autonomy and cause harm, and influence our moral views. So far, these issues have hardly been subject to systematic ethical analysis. This study aims to fill this gap by providing an overview of moral problems in preventive medicine and by explicating norms for good practice. Throughout the book it is argued that some moral concerns about prevention - namely ... Read more
Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration is a study of ethical questions regarding mass screening, vaccination, and health policy programmes. These interventions aim to enhance public health but may also constrain personal autonomy and cause harm, and influence our moral views. So far, these issues have hardly been subject to systematic ethical analysis. This study aims to fill this gap by providing an overview of moral problems in preventive medicine and by explicating norms for good practice. Throughout the book it is argued that some moral concerns about prevention - namely ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792366911
SKU
V9780792366911
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99-15
Reviews for Preventive Medicine Between Obligation and Aspiration
`...the book makes a valuable contribution to this increasingly important area of philosophy of medicine and health care, and may be generally of interest to scholars in applied ethics' Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 5:1 (2002)