Bookedited by Sridhar Venkatapuram and Alex Broadbent.
Summary: "In comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar. What is public health, and perhaps as importantly, what should public health be or become? How do causal concepts shape the public health agenda? How do study designs either promote or demote the environmental causal factors or health inequalities? How is risk understood, expressed, and communicated? Who is public health research centered on? How can we develop technologies so the benefits are more fairly distributed? Do people have a right to public health? How should we integrate ethics into public health practice? The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health addresses these questions and more, and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising twenty-six chapters by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the handbook is divided into four clear parts: Concepts and Distinctions Reasons and Actions Distribution and Inequalities Rights and Duties. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health is a field-defining and sustained reflection on the various ethical, political, methodological and conceptual aspects of global public health. As such it is an essential reference source for students and scholars working in political philosophy, bioethics, public health ethics, and the philosophy of medicine, as well as for professionals and researchers in related fields such public health and epidemiology"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction : philosophy and public health / Alex Broadbent and Sridhar Venkatapuram
The public in public health / John Coggon
Medicine and public health / Daniel Steel
Groups and individuals / Stephen John
Concepts of health and disease in public health / Benjamin Smart
Public health and ethics / Sridhar Venkatapuram
The philosophical implications of fundamental cause theory / Daniel Goldberg
Causal pluralism and public health / Federica Russo
External validity and public health / Chad Harris
Explanation in public health / Olaf Dammann
Evidence-based medicine and public health / Mathew Mercuri and Ross E. G. Upshur
Profiling in public health / winnie ma
big data and public health / Derek W. Braverman
Machine learning and public health : philosophical issues / Thomas Grote and Alex Broadbent
Capabilities, human flourishing, and the health gap / Michael Marmot
Measuring social position in health inequality research / Mel Bartley
Race and racism in public health / Diamond-Hunter
Sex and gender blind spots and biases in health research / Avni Amin, Lavanya Vijayasingham, and Jacqui Stevenson
Global health indicators and data : communicative signs and sites of contest / Sara L. M. Davis
Securitization and health / Jeremy Youde
Health, place and justice : a philosophical appraisal of promoting equity in Covid-19 through disadvantage indices / Samantha Fritz, Tuhina Srivastava, Emily Sadecki, and Harald Schmidt
Social justice and public health / Maxwell J. Smith
Health, healthcare, and public health as objects of (human) rights / Michael Da Silva
Disability justice and public health / Agnès Berthelot-Raffard
Ageing and justice in health : a conceptual map toward a unified view / Kebadu Mekonnen Gebremariam and Ritu Sadana
Philosophical issues in cancer and public health / Anya Plutynski
Public health, human rights, and philosophy / Kristen Hessler.