Although vaccination is recognised as the top public health achievement of the twentieth
century, unequivocal consensus about its beneficence does not exist among the general …

Recent decades have witnessed profound shifts in the politics of medicine and the biological
sciences. Members of several professions, including philosophers, lawyers and social …

Social scientists are angry and frustrated. Still. They believe their work is being constrained
and distorted by regulators of ethical practice who neither understand social science …

This is an excellent book which can be recommended both to the professional ethicist
seeking to situate research ethics for a social scientific audience and to social scientists …

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to
organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we …

Informed consent is increasingly heralded as an ethical panacea, a tool to counter autocratic
and paternalistic medical practices. Debate about the implementation of informed consent is …

Este artículo intenta caracterizar la especificidad de los problemas morales en salud pública
y analizar la aplicabilidad del modelo principialista como padrón para dirimir sus conflictos …

My objective is to explain the so-called four principles approach and to explain the
philosophical and practical roles these principles play. I start with a brief history and then …

Economics is today among the most influential of all professions. Economists alter the
course of economic affairs and deeply affect the lives of current and future generations. Yet …

Avec la collaboration de Jocelyne Saint-Arnaud L'ampleur des moyens utilisés par les
institutions mandatées pour la prévention de la maladie et la promotion de la santé n'est pas …