Ethics and Epidemiology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Since its first publication in 1996, Ethics and Epidemiology has been an invaluable resource for practicing public health professionals and MPH students around the world. This third edition presents an international perspective of prominent epidemiologists, ethicists, and legal scholars to address important ethical developments in epidemiology and related public health fields from the last decade, including the rise of public health ethics and the complex inter-relations between professional ethics in epidemiology, public health ethics, and research ethics. Ethics and Epidemiology, Third Edition is organized topically and divided into four parts covering "Foundations," "Key Values and Principles," "Methods," and "Issues." New or updated chapters include ethical issues in public health practice, ethical issues in genetic epidemiology, and ethical issues in international health research and epidemiology.Now updated with timely global examples, Ethics and Epidemiology, Third Edition provides an in-depth account to the theoretical and practical moral problems confronting public health students and professionals and offers guidance for how justified moral conclusions can be reached.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-29
Mått:244 x 165 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Upplaga:3
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197587058

Utforska kategorier

Medicinsk etik och läkaretik inom Medicin
Hälso- och sjukvårdsrätt inom Juridik
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Steven Coughlin, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Dr. Coughlin was Chair of the committee that drafted the ethics guidelines for the American College of Epidemiology, and he served previously as a senior epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than eleven years.

Recensioner i media

Epidemiology is a quantitative science. In Coughlin and Dawson's Ethics and Epidemiology, we are reminded that each number has a history and meaning, and that epidemiology must work in the service of justice.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Contributors PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Historical Foundations 2. Epidemiology and Informed Consent 3. Solidarity and the Common Good: Social Epidemiology and Relational Ethics in Public Health 4. Understanding the Ethics of Risk as Used in Epidemiology 5. Risk and Precaution: The Ethical Challenges of Translating Epidemiology into Action PART III: METHODS 6. Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Community-Based Intervention Studies PART IV: ISSUES 7. Ethics in Public Health Practice 8. Ethics Issues in Genetic Epidemiology 9. Ethics, Epidemiology, and Changing Perspectives on AIDS 10. Ethics Curricula in Epidemiology 11. Conflicts of Interest