Public Health Ethics, the Podcast.

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Publish date

20th May 2010

Topic(s): Public Health

Live from the Center for Practical Bioethics, Dr. Summer Johnson (that’s me) provides a basic introduction to public health and public health ethics.

In addition, I explain how public health ethics differs from traditional ways of analyzing health care ethics problems, and in particular how this applies in the case of public health emergencies.

This podcast is delivered courtesy of The Bioethics Channel.

Summer Johnson, PhD

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Promising Practices for Inclusive Precision Medicine Research and the Contribution to Public and Population Health

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Chemical Restraints for Obstetric Violence: Anesthesiology Professionals, Moral Courage, and the Prevention of Forced and Coerced Surgeries

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Medicaid is Fundamental to Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Health Security

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Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency

This editorial can be found in the December 2023 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental […]

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