What is health policy for? Alan Cribb addresses this question in a way that cuts across disciplinary boundaries. His core argument is that biomedical ethics should draw upon public health values and ethics. He argues that everybody has some share of responsibility for health, including a responsibility for promoting greater health equality.
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- Part I. The Evolving Value Field of Healthcare
- 1: The Diffusion of the Public Health Agenda
- 2: Producing the Goods: Health, Welfare, and Well-being
- 3: Participation in Health Decisions: Patient and Community Empowerment
- Part II. Health Policy Ethics
- 4: Health Promotion and the Good Society
- 5: The Distribution of Health and Healthcare
- 6: Responsibility for Health
- Part III. Institutions and Vocations
- 7: Professional Ethics in Context
- 8: Managing Healthcare: Making or breaking healthcare goods?
- 9: The Boundaries of Professional Legitimacy
- Part IV. Education, Ethics, and Agenda Setting
- 10: Rethinking Health Education
- 11: Towards a Socially Reflexive Healthcare Ethics
- 12: Making the Health Agenda
