Policy Press Public health ethics and practice

This book examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate. Review 'This is a book that should be widely read and which should both provoke and shape debate in any future context concerned with the future of UK public health, and public health training.' Sociology of Health and IllnessExploring tensions at the very heart of public health - between community needs and individual freedom and from philosophical concepts to everyday dilemmas - this book sheds welcome light on a much neglected aspect of the field. Prof Alan Maryon-Davis, President, UK Faculty of Public HealthThe papers in this collection illustrate the diversity of ethical issues associated with public health initiatives. The book should stimulate thinking about the development and application of ethical considerations in public health policy and practice. Vikki Entwistle, Professor of Values in Health Care, University of DundeeThrough bridging the foundational ethical underpinnings with the practice-oriented nature of public health, this important book introduces and articulates the interdisciplinary space that is public health ethics. Ryan Melnychuk, Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health Ethics About the Author Stephen Peckham is Director of the Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) at the University of Kent and Professor of Health Policy at CHSS and the Department of Health Services Research and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is also the Director of PRUComm.