Genomics and the Public Health Code of Ethics

A code of ethics for public health.

Public Health and Public Health Ethics*

Spectacular achievements in the health of individuals have not been matched by equivalent improvement in the health of whole populations. Indeed it is against the background of deterioration in levels of population health in some parts of the world and the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in association with powerful globalizing forces that there has been a recrudescence of int...

Public health genomics--public health goes personalized?

Correspondence: Angela Brand, Director, Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), Cluster of Genetics and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 5, 6229 ES Maastricht, The Netherlands. e-mail: [email protected] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . ....

Towards public health ethics

Health is a value, both objective and subjective, yet it is not the only value that contributes to the well-being of persons. In public health, there are different connotations of the term "public" relevant from an ethical perspective: population, government action, and collective action of the community. Ethics seeks to provide a basis for and justify moral decisions and actions. Ethics asks, ...

Public Health Ethics and Liberalism

This paper defends a distinctly liberal approach to public health ethics and replies to possible objections. In particular, I look at a set of recent proposals aiming to revise and expand liberalism in light of public health's rationale and epidemiological findings. I argue that they fail to provide a sociologically informed version of liberalism. Instead, they rest on an implicit normative pre...