Public health: ethical issues
Resources - Books
Amick B, III, Levine S, Tarlov AR and Walsh DC (eds) (1995) Society and Health (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Anand S, Peter F and Sen A (editors) (2004) Public Health, Ethics, And Equity (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Baggott R (2000) Public Health: policy and politics (Basingstoke: Palmgrave MacMillan)
Battin M, Rhodes R and Silvers A (eds.) (2002) Medicine and Social Justice (New York: Oxford University Press) (Chapter: Brock DW ‘Priority to the Worst Off in Health Care Resource Prioritization’)
Bayer R (1989) Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health (New York: The Free Press).
Beauchamp DE (1988) The Health of the Republic: Epidemics, Medicine, and Moralism as Challenges to Democracy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press)
Beauchamp DE and Steinbock B (editors) (1999) New Ethics for the Public's Health (New York: Oxford University Press).
Beck U (1992) Risk Society: towards a new modernity (London: Sage Publications).
Boylan M (editor) (2004) Public Health Policy and Ethics (Dordrecth/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers).
Bradley P and Burls A (eds) (2000) Ethics in Public Health and Community Health (London & New York: Routledge).
Bradley P and Burls A (eds) (2000) Ethics in Public and Community Health (London: Routledge).
Cornes R and Sandler T (1996) The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods and Club goods, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Coughlin SS, Soskolne CL, Goodman KW et al. (1998) Case Studies in Public Health Ethics (Washington, DC: American Public Health Association).
Detels R, Holland WW, McEwen J, Omenn GS (editors) (1997) Oxford Textbook of Public Health (New York: Oxford University Press).
Gold MR, Siegel JE, Russell LB, Weinstein MC (eds.) (1996) Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine (New York: Oxford university Press).
Gostin LO (2002) Public Health Law and Ethics (Berkeley/London: University of California Press).
Reich W (editor) (1995) Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Revised Edition (New York: Simon Schuster/Macmillan) (Chapter: Beauchamp DE “Public health: philosophy of public health”)
Towse A, Pritchard C and Devlin N (2002) Cost-effectiveness thresholds:
Economic and ethical issues (London: Office of Health Economics).
Please note:
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics does not endorse the content of these publications.
Last Updated Tue, 28 February 2006