International Public Health Policy and Ethics

This second edition of International Public Health Policy and Ethics complements the popular first edition with contemporary problems in international public health. It brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced – especially in the international arena. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the group? How do policy concerns and clinical practice work together and work against each other? Can the boundaries of public health be extended to include social ills that are amenable to group-dynamic solutions? What about political issues? How can international finance make an impact? These are some of the crucial questions that form the core of this volume of original essays sure to cause practitioners to engage in a critical re-evaluation of the role of ethics in public health policy. With a targeted new essay dealing with COVID and public health issues in Africa this second edition provides a resource building on the first edition. 

Michael Boylan is the author of 25 single or co-authored works in philosophy as well as 12 edited books.  He is also the author of 150 essays in journals and book chapters. He has been an invited lecturer at top universities in 15 countries on 5 continents.  His most recent books are: Natural Human Rights, Basic Ethics, 3^rd ed., Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Fiction can Act as Philosophy, The Process of Argument, 3^rd ed., and with Springer, Ethical Public Health Policy Within Pandemics and Teaching Ethics with Three Philosophical Novels, 2^nd ed.