Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration

Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9789401593656
ISBN-13 : 9401593655
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Book Synopsis Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration by : M.F. Verweij

Download or read book Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration written by M.F. Verweij and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration is a study of ethical questions regarding mass screening, vaccination, and health policy programmes. These interventions aim to enhance public health but may also constrain personal autonomy and cause harm, and influence our moral views. So far, these issues have hardly been subject to systematic ethical analysis. This study aims to fill this gap by providing an overview of moral problems in preventive medicine and by explicating norms for good practice. Throughout the book it is argued that some moral concerns about prevention - namely concerns about medicalization - cannot be adequately grasped in terms of strict and binding moral norms. Various moral concepts and types of norms `beyond obligation' are explored and developed in order to give practical meaning to these rather vague concerns. In this way the book contributes to applied ethics as well as to ethical theory. It is of interest to professionals in public health and preventive medicine and to scholars in applied ethics and moral philosophy.


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