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What Makes Health Public?
John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is what makes health public?", He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public health', and argues why and how normative analyses in public health are inquiries in political theory. The arguments expose and explain the political claims inherent in key works in public health ethics. Coggon then develops and defends a particular understanding of political liberalism, describing its implications for critical study of public health policies and practices. Covering important works from legal, moral, and political theory, public health, public health law and ethics, and bioethics, this is a foundational text for scholars, practi tioners, and policy bodies interested in freedoms, rights, and respon sibilities relating to health.
JOHN COGGON is a research fellow in the School of Law, University of Manchester. His research focuses principally on legal, moral, and political issues relating to health and welfare. He was the win ner of the 2006 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research, awarded by the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics at the University of Southern California, in conjunction with the International Association of Bioethics. From 2007-10 he held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship.
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Bookseller: BADE BOOKS
Language : English
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