PRIVATE ASYLUMS AND PUBLIC INTEREST.

Private Property and Public Interest

The Census of 1851, in Relation to Public and Private Lunatic Asylums

Sir,?As the subjoined correspondence between myself and the Eegistrar-General will be read with interest by a large class of professional gentlemen associated with public and private lunatic asylums, I offer no apology for transmitting it to you for publication in your journal. It certainly would have been most unjustifiably inquisitorial, if the proprietors of private asylums for the insane ha...

Private Power, Public Interest: An Examination of Search Engine Accountability

As information becomes a critical commodity in modern society, the issue is raised whether the entities that manage access to information, that are tools for public discourse and democracy, should be accountable to the public. The Internet has transformed how we communicate, and search engines have emerged as managers of information, organizing and categorizing content in a coherent, accessible...

Addressing conflicts of interest in Public Private Partnerships

BACKGROUND Many articles have been written on conflicts of interests (COIs) in fields such as medicine, business, politics, public service and education. With the growing abundance of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), often involving complex relationships among the partners, it is important to understand how COIs can be mitigated and managed in PPPs. DISCUSSION We wanted to study PPPs, part...

The ethics of public health practice: balancing private and public interest within tobacco policy.

INTRODUCTION Public health practice is characterized by measuring population health, assessing needs for health care and the provision (directly or indirectly) of services to protect and promote the public's health. It is increasingly explicitly concerned with issues of equity. SOURCES OF DATA Publications discussing ethical issues in public health. AREAS OF AGREEMENT Unlike the duties of c...