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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on November 6, 2007
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwm296
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2007. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Book Review

Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice

Edited by Ronald Bayer, Lawrence O. Gostin, Bruce Jennings, and Bonnie Steinbock

Steven S. Coughlin

From the Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341

(e-mail: sic9@cdc.gov)

ISBN 0 19 518085 2, Oxford University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 800-445-9714, Fax: 919-677-1303, E-mail: custserv.us@oup.com, World Wide Web: http://www.oup.com/), 2006, 418 pp., $49.95 Paperback

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Public health ethics is the identification, analysis, and resolution of ethical problems arising in public health practice and research (1, 2). Ethical concerns in public health often relate to the dual obligations of public health professionals: to acquire and apply scientific knowledge aimed at improving and protecting the public's health while respecting individual autonomy. Ethics in public health involves an interplay between protecting the welfare of the individual, as in medicine, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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