14 articles in this issue
Marcela Ferrer Lues
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Alison Thompson, Ann Robertson, Ross Upshur
Public health ethics, as distinct from clinical/medical bioethics, is an emerging field of study in academic settings. As part of a larger effort to address what the conceptual and content boundaries of this field are, or ought to be, a group at the Unive... see more
Bruce Jennings
This paper constructs a conceptual framework for the normative study of public health. It argues that to develop discussions of ethics in public health without paying attention to the broader theoretical and ideological context of public health controvers... see more
Lawrence O. Gostin
This article asks the difficult questions- what is public health? and what is public health ethics? The article also recognizes that even though public health and biomedical ethics overlap, they have distinct aspects. The article examines the unique popul... see more
Fernando Lolas
This paper puts forward the notion of ethical sustainability as the manifestation of moral values in public health policy. The most relevant of these values is that of justice, which is interpreted as fairness and qualified according to the type of societ... see more
Solomon R. Benatar
Spectacular achievements in the health of individuals have not been matched by equivalent improvement in the health of whole populations. Indeed it is against the background of deterioration in levels of population health in some parts of the world and th... see more
Ruth Chadwick
This paper questions the utility of the ethical principles that are usually invoked to deal with genomic issues, particularly genetic databases. Concepts such as solidarity, benefit sharing, equity, public participation, and collective identity are discus... see more
Jorge Alberto Álvarez Díaz
More than 300 dead women ... the history is plenty of injustices. Sometimes, the victims, their descendents or organizations, have claimed by the injustice done. This work tries to be a claim for the more than 300 women victims of rape and homicide, in Ci... see more
Delia Outomuro
This paper proposes as thesis that in Argentina bioethics runs the risk of operating as an institution in the anthropological sense this term and that, as such, far from contributing to the crystallisation of the emancipatory rationality, it performs the ... see more
Laura Rueda Castro, María Angélica Sotomayor Saavedra
This monography seeks to establish an interdisciplinary link between bioethics and the clinical and juridical aspects that connect with attention, protection and rehabilitation of persons with psychiatric illness. The analysis is centered those adults, on... see more
Fernando Lolas Stepke
Cecilia Acuña
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