Ethical Issues in Preventive Medicine

The first suggestions and exchange of ideas for this Workshop began about two years ago when, at the invitation of Professor E Bennett, Director of Health and Safety of the Commission of the European Communities and Professor W W Holland of the Panel of Social Medicine and Epidemiology of the EEC, I...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Doxiadis, S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1985, 1985
Edition:1st ed. 1985
Series:NATO Science Series D:, Behavioural and Social Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Session I
  • 1 Introductory talk
  • 2 Medical ethics and moral philosophy
  • Session II
  • 3 Evolution and mutation in medical ethics
  • 4 Theoretical basis of disease prevention
  • Session III
  • 5 Development of preventive medicine and health promotion
  • 6 Ethical aspects of public health legislation and the role of the state
  • Subsidiary presentation Oregon health decisions
  • Session IV
  • 7 Ethical aspects of the economics of prevention
  • 8 Ethical issues in descriptive and analytical epidemiology and in primary prevention
  • Session V
  • 9 Ethical issues in trials of prevention
  • 10 Ethical issues of health promotion, health education, and behavioural control
  • Session VI
  • 11 Ethical issues in the activities of mass media communication in health education
  • 12 Ethical issues in occupational health
  • Session VII
  • 13 Ethics, prevention, and child health
  • 14 Ethical issues in mass screening procedures
  • Session VIII
  • 15 Ethical aspects of population control
  • 16 Methods and procedures of ethical control
  • Closing remarks