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Title:
What is Public Health Ethics?

Satoshi KODAMA, Ph.D
Lecturer
Department of Biomedical Ethics
School of Public Health
The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine

Abstract:
People are much healthier today than they were several generations ago thanks to public health legislation and activities. As we face a host of new public health issues including new strains of influenza and obesity, there is a growing sense that we need a new ethical and legal framework of public health.
This is partly due to the suspicion that traditional bioethics centered on patient autonomy is inadequate for justifying public health policies and practice, many of which are inherently paternalistic.
I would like to delineate the emerging field of public health ethics and, by way of illustration, discuss ethical issues surrounding smoking.

References:
1. Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Public Health: Ethical Issues, Cambridge Publishing Ltd., 2007.

2. Nancy E. Kass: Public Health Ethics: From Foundations and Frameworks to Justice and Global Public Health [symposium articles].Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 32:232-239, 2004.

3. James F. Childress, Ruth R. Faden, Ruth D. Gaare, Lawrence O.Gostin, Jeffrey Kahn, Richard J. Bonnie, Nancy E. Kass, Anna C.Mastroianni, Jonathan D. Moreno, Phillip Nieburg: Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 30:170-178, 2002.

4. Bruce Jennings, Jeffrey Kahn, Anna Mastroianni, Lisa S. Parker: Ethics and Public Health: Model Curriculum. The Hastings Center, 2003.