What Makes Health Public?: A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health

ISBN-13: 9781107016392 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 310 str.

John Coggon

Opis

John Coggon analyses important ethical, legal and political claims related to public health and health regulation.

Recenzje

'… Coggon's achievement is substantial. What Makes Health Public? provides a carefully argued examination of the normative bases for public health policies.' Wendy E. Parmet, Medical Law Review

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Basic Concepts and Public Health: 1. Health, normativity, and politics; 2. The public, and things being public; 3. The seven faces of public health; 4. Public health policy; 5. Public health law and ethics; 6. Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Evaluating Evaluations: Making Health Public: 7. Analysis in the political realm; 8. Making health public; 9. Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Tackling Responsibility: Liberal Citizens as Subjects and Sovereigns: 10. Liberal citizens: defining non-individuated individuals; 11. Health made public: rights, R=responsibilities and shared concerns; 12. Conclusion.