Ethics in Public Health Practice

Ethics and Epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  McKeown, Robert E ^a   Max Learner, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Communitarianism; Decision making; Ethics; Human rights; Public health practice; Virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920575700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195322934.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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