Global bioethics approach to public health

Bioethics - Public Health - Oxford Bibliographies

Public health has made enormous contributions to global health through policies and interventions. However, public health measures have also increased human suffering through policies of forced sterilization, mandatory screening of vulnerable populations, detention of people with infectious diseases, and the quarantine and social isolation of “sick” people or communities. Until recently, the va...

Bioethics, philosophy, and global health.

A Global Public Goods Approach to the Health of Migrants

This paper explores a global public goods approach to the health of migrants. It suggests that this approach establishes that there are a number of health goods which must be provided to migrants not because these are theirs by right (although this may independently be the case), but because these goods are primary goods which fit the threefold criteria of global public goods. There are two key...

[Contributions to public health by the field of bioethics].

Current Perspectives of Potter's Global Bioethics as a Bridge between Clinical (personalized) and Public Health Ethics.

In the context of modern scientific and technological developments in biomedicine and health care, and the potential consequences of their application on humans and the environment, Potter's global bioethics concept resurfaces. By actualizing Potter's original thoughts on individual bioethical issues, the universality of two of his books, which today represent the backbone of the world bioethic...