Dedication

pp iii-iii

Acknowledgements

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

List of figures, tables and boxes

pp vii-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-xii

one - Introduction: Why public health ethics?

pp 1-14

Part One - Public health: contexts

pp 15-16

two - Why ethics? What kind of ethics for public health?

pp 17-32

three - Public health ethics: what it is and how to do it

pp 33-48

Part Two - Ethics and public health practice

pp 49-50

four - What does it mean to ‘know’ a disease? The tragedy of XDR-TB

pp 51-64

five - The evaluation of public health education initiatives on smoking and lung cancer: an ethical critique

pp 65-82

six - Relevance of primary care bioethics committees in public health ethical practice in the community: an experience in an area of extreme poverty in Santiago, Chile

pp 83-100

seven - Unlinked anonymous blood testing for public health purposes: an ethical dilemma?

pp 101-116

eight - Constructing the obesity epidemic: loose science, money and public health

pp 117-136

nine - Politics, ethics and evidence: immunisation and public health policy

pp 137-154

ten - Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the ‘cure’ for cervical cancer

pp 155-170

eleven - A call for clearer vaccine exemption typology to improve population health

pp 171-188

Part Three - Public health ethics: developing a basis for practice

pp 189-190

twelve - Theory and practice in public health ethics: a complex relationship

pp 191-210

thirteen - Conclusion: taking forward the debate

pp 211-218

Index

pp 219-224