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This article aims to present 10 years of experience of teaching ethics in a Masters Program in Public Health in Lithuania, and to discuss the content, skills, teaching approach and tools of this programme. In addition, the article analyses the links between ethics and law, identifies the challenges of the teaching process and suggests future teaching strategies. The important role of teaching e...

Although bioethicists have written about public health problems for many decades (e.g., Faden and Faden 1978; Bayer and Moreno 1986), public health ethics as a distinct field is not much older than the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (JBI) itself. Around 2000, there was a rapid increase in the number of ethicists writing about public health problems (e.g., Kass 2001; Upshur 2002) as well as engag...

Although increasingly global, data-driven genomics and other 'omics'-focused research hold great promise for health discoveries, current research ethics review systems around the world challenge potential improvements in human health from such research. To overcome this challenge, we propose a 'Safe Harbor Framework for International Ethics Equivalency' that facilitates the harmonization of eth...

Despite the dissemination of principles of medical ethics in prisons, formulated and advocated by numerous international organizations, health care professionals in prisons all over the world continue to infringe these principles because of perceived or real dual loyalty to patients and prison authorities. Health care professionals and nonmedical prison staff need greater awareness of and train...

Health reform is not in the details. Think I am wrong? How far did we get this summer wallowing around in claims about co-ops, public plans, death panels, rationing, and cost savings? Health reform is in the ethics.

OBJECTIVE To assess the role of ethical regulations in public health practice, and to review the need to exempt any public health activity from such ethical regulations. METHODS Literature review of published papers regarding ethical regulations in public health practice. RESULTS There is a current criticism of public health ethics as hindering rather than facilitating public health researc...

Almost 2 years ago, our national debate about changing the American health care system devolved into a war of words over whether these changes would enable the creation of " death panels, " an extreme euphemism for rationing. In Health Policy and Ethics: A Critical Examination of Values from a Global Perspective, Roger Wor-thington and Robert Rohrbaugh have compiled a number of essays addressin...

Résumé Summary Les inquiétudes concernant les disparités croissantes en matière de santé et de richesses entre les membres de la société ont incité Stephanie Nixon et Lisa Forman, dans leur article de 2008 Exploring synergies between human rights and public health ethics: A whole greater than the sum of its parts, à proposer que les principes de droits de l’homme et de l’éthique de la santé pub...

Most scarcities that underpin health disparities within and among countries are not natural; rather, they result from policy choices and the operation of social institutions. Using examples from the United States of America: the Chicago heat wave and hurricane Katrina, this paper develops "denaturalizing scarcity" as a strategy for enquiry to inform public-health ethics in an interconnected wor...