Is solidarity in bioethics or public health ethics necessary? If so, why? there room for a principle of obligatory ethics? In the first part this paper, I assess meaning value ethics. second part, propose insights into republican interpretation solidarity, or, more correctly, “civic” solidarity. This is crucial to be able distinguish between different sources of, and justifications for, some le...

Whilst public health interventions, and ethical consideration of them, have a long history, concern about ethical issues in public health first came to the fore in the 1980s in response to the rise of HIV/ AIDS. Since that time this has been a rapidly growing field of enquiry and work on public health ethics has been carried out by public health professionals, bioethicists and lawyers, among ot...

Training in public health ethics is not at the core of public health programmes in Europe. The fruitful progress of the United States could stimulate the European schools of public health and other academic institutions to develop specifically European teaching programmes for ethics that embrace both transatlantic innovations and some adaptations based on the evolution of moral values in Europe...

Canada is in the forefront of thinking about the unique and complex issues of contemporary public health ethics. However, an inordinate focus on the urgent issues of emergency preparedness in pandemic and reliance on bioethical analysis steeped in the autonomy and individual rights tradition of health care and research do not serve adequately as the basis for an ethic of public health with its ...