Philosophy for public health and public policy : beyond the neglectful state

Philosophy for public health and public policy : beyond the neglectful state / James Wilson.

This groundbreaking book argues that philosophy is not just useful, but vital, for thinking coherently about priorities in health policy and public policy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, James (James George Scott)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Public health > Philosophy.
Medical policy > Philosophy.
Public health > Philosophy
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy: Beyond the Neglectful State
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Ethical Values and Deliberative Communities
  • 1.2 Defining Health
  • 1.3 The Idea of a Public Health Problem
  • 1.4 The Context of Public Health Ethics
  • 1.4.1 Ageing Societies and the Increasing Prominence of Chronic Disease
  • 1.4.2 The Importance of the Social Determinants of Health
  • 1.4.3 Rising Costs of Healthcare
  • 1.4.4 The Return of Communicable Diseases
  • 1.4.5 Systemic Interconnections and Clustering of Risk Factors
  • 1.5 A Brief Map of What Is to Come
  • PART I PHILOSOPHY FOR PUBLIC POLICY
  • 2: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Complexity
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The Rise of Evidence-Based Medicine
  • 2.3 From Evidence-Based Medicine to Evidence-Based Policy?
  • 2.4 Randomization and Internal Validity
  • 2.5 External Validity
  • 2.6 Conclusion, and a Way Forward
  • 3: Internal and External Validity in Ethical Reasoning
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The Linear Model in Healthcare Research
  • 3.3 Moral Philosophy and the Linear Model
  • 3.4 Thought Experiments
  • 3.5 Internal and External Validity
  • 3.6 Internal Validity in Thought Experiments
  • 3.7 Reproducibility, Fiction, and Thought Experiments
  • 3.8 The Problem of External Validity
  • 3.8.1 Normative Contextual Variance
  • 3.8.2 Non-Transferabilityof Causal Structures
  • 3.9 Conclusion
  • 4: Ethics for Complex Systems
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Parts, Wholes, and Complexity
  • 4.3 Stocks, Flows, and Models
  • 4.4 A Complex Systems Approach to Public Health Policy
  • 4.5 The Normative Implications of Complex Systems
  • 4.5.1 The Usefulness of Abstraction
  • 4.5.2 Is Moral Reality Simple?
  • 4.6 Performativity in Complex Systems
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • PART II: BEYOND THE NEGLECTFUL STATE: An Ethical Framework For Public Health
  • 5: Paternalism, Autonomy, and the Common Good: Infringing Liberty for the Sake of Health
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Rethinking Autonomy
  • 5.3 Paternalism, Coercion, and Government Action
  • 5.4 The Very Idea of Paternalistic Policies
  • 5.5 The Unavoidable Coerciveness of States
  • 5.6 Against Antipaternalism
  • 5.7 Justifying Public Health Policies to which a Minority Object
  • 5.8 Conclusion
  • 6: The Right to Public Health
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Justifying Rights Claims
  • 6.3 Arguing for the Right to Public Health
  • 6.4 The Right to Public Health as a Right to Risk Reduction
  • 6.5 Why the Right to Public Health is Compatible with Reductions of Liberty
  • 6.6 Conclusion
  • 7: Which Risks to Health Matter Most?
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Prevention, Treatment, and Rescue
  • 7.3 Pairwise Comparison and Aggregation
  • 7.4 Priority to the Worst Off
  • 7.5 Capacity to Benefit and Opportunity Costs
  • 7.6 Time and Claims
  • 7.7 Risk and Claims
  • 7.8 The Prevention Paradox
  • 7.9 Measuring Claims
  • 7.10 Conclusion

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