Vulnerability, risk and disease : a normative framework for public health policy
In this thesis, I provide an account of the ethical and epistemic norms that ought to guide public health policy. In Chapter 1, I argue that assessment of physical well-being should ask not only whether we have met our “vital needs”, but how “secure” we are. I motivate this claim by analogy with epi...
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University of Cambridge
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605615 |