Publisher's Synopsis
The importance of preventive medicine in the provision of health care is now universally accepted, and health organisations throughout the world are increasingly influencing governments to implement policies of health promotion and education, in recognition of the fact that therapeutic medicine alone, despite its many achievements, cannot hope to eradicate disease.;However the implementation of such national policies has in turn brought to light a number of ethical dilemmas, and it is these dilemmas which form the subject of this volume. The book considers how global health policies affect individual rights, and it examines areas of conflict between public and personal interests. It explores the sometimes unforeseen implications of health legislation, and the dilemmas created by the increasing cost of health care in the allocation of scarce resources.;This important subject is skillfully discussed and debated by a group of international contributors from a wide variety of disciplines, who draw on their personal experience of daily contact with the problems they describe and analyse. Individual practitioners, private and government bodies, academic institutions, health administrators, legislators, sociologists, and philosophers will find this book a fascinating and informative insight into ethical issues in general, and a source of guidance for the creation of improved standards of health throughout the world.
