Public health and public goods
Abstract
It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish public health (and public health
ethics) from tangentially related fields like social work. I argue that we should
reclaim the more traditional conception of public health as the provision of health-related
public goods. The public goods account has the advantage of establishing a relatively
clear and distinctive mission for public health. It also allows a consensus of people
with different comprehensive moral and political commitments to endorse public health
measures, even if they disagree about precisely why they are desirable. © The Author
2011. Published by Oxford University Press.
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10.1093/phe/phr027Publication Info
(2011). Public health and public goods. Public Health Ethics, 4(3). pp. 251-259. 10.1093/phe/phr027. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6321.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Jonathan Anomaly
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
I work mostly on issues at the intersection of ethics and economics, including how
we should respond to the under-consumption of vaccines and the over-consumption of
antibiotics, and whether the market for biomedical enhancements should be regulated
in any way. More generally, my research focuses on collective action problems. I
recently co-edited the first major <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/philosophy-politics-and-economics-9780190207311?cc=us&lang=en&a
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