Ethics and Epidemiology

Since its first publication in 1996, Ethics and Epidemiology has been an invaluable resource for practicing public health professionals and MPH students around the world. This third edition presents an international perspective of prominent epidemiologists, ethicists, and legal scholars to address important ethical developments in epidemiology and related public health fields from the last decade, including the rise of public health ethics and the complex inter-relations between professional ethics in epidemiology, public health ethics, and research ethics. Ethics and Epidemiology, Third Edition is organized topically and divided into four parts covering "Foundations," "Key Values and Principles," "Methods," and "Issues." New or updated chapters include ethical issues in public health practice, ethical issues in genetic epidemiology, and ethical issues in international health research and epidemiology. Now updated with timely global examples, Ethics and Epidemiology, Third Edition provides an in-depth account to the theoretical and practical moral problems confronting public health students and professionals and offers guidance for how justified moral conclusions can be reached.

Steven Coughlin, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Dr. Coughlin was Chair of the committee that drafted the ethics guidelines for the American College of Epidemiology, and he served previously as a senior epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than eleven years. Angus Dawson is Professor of Bioethics and Director of Sydney Health Ethics (SHE) at the University of Sydney. He was previously the first Professor of Public Health Ethics at the Univeristy of Birmingham in the UK.

Preface Contributors PART I: FOUNDATIONS Chapter 1 - Historical Foundations Steven S. Coughlin PART II: KEY VALUES AND PRINCIPLES Chapter 2 - Epidemiology and Informed Consent Anna C. Mastroianni and Jeffrey P. Kahn Chapter 3 - Solidarity and the Common Good: Social Epidemiology and Relational Ethics in Public Health Bruce Jennings Chapter 4 - Understanding the Ethics of Risk as Used in Epidemiology Diego S. Silva Chapter 5 - Risk and Precaution: The Ethical Challenges of Translating Epidemiology into Action Stephen D. John PART III: METHODS Chapter 6 - Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Community-Based Intervention Studies Michelle C. Kegler, Steven S. Coughlin, and Karen Glanz PART IV: ISSUES Chapter 7 - Ethics in Public Health Practice Robert E. McKeown Chapter 8 - Ethics Issues in Genetic Epidemiology Laura M. Beskow, Stephanie M. Fullerton, and Wylie Burke Chapter 9 - Ethics, Epidemiology, and Changing Perspectives on AIDS Carol Levine Chapter 10 - Ethics Curricula in Epidemiology Kenneth W. Goodman and Ronald J. Prineas Chapter 11-Conflicts of Interest Walter Ricciardi and Carlo Petrini Index