LibGuides: Public Health Law: Public Health Ethics

Introduction

Public health ethics involves a systematic process to clarify, prioritize and justify possible courses of public health action based on ethical principles, values and beliefs of stakeholders, and scientific and other information. (CDC)

Public Health Ethics Journal
Public Health Ethics (PHE) is a peer-reviewed international journal that focuses on the systematic analysis of the moral problems that arise in public health and preventive medicine
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

Cruzan by Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health
Under the due process clause, a state may require that an incompetent person's wishes as to the withdrawal of life-sustaining medical treatment be proven by clear and convincing evidence.
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497 US 261
Gonzalez v. Oregon
Upholding Oregon's "Death with Dignity" act allowing assisted suicide.
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546 U.S. 243
Kevorkian v. Thompson
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947 F.Supp. 1152 (1997)

An Ethics Framework for Public Health: Nancy E. Kass. American Journal of Public Health: November 2001, Vol. 91, No. 11, pp. 1776-1782.

How to Die in Oregon
Filmmaker Peter Richardson examines both sides of the complex, emotionally charged issue of physician-assisted suicide, which Oregon legalized in 1994.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study 1932-1972
Tuskegee University
"Ethically Impossible" STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948
Book, articles, study guide, and other materials describing the unethical research conducted in the 1940s in Guatemala.

CDC Public Health Ethics
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
WHO Ethics and Health
Department of Ethics and Social Determinants (ESD) works collaboratively with staff from all departments and the regional offices to identify, design, and carry out projects addressing the ethics of health care, public health, and biomedical science.
APHA Ethics
American Public Health Association
ASPH Ethics and Public Health: Model Curriculum
This curriculum and facilitator’s guide offers a planned approach to the discussion of ethical and values issues in public health
Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
Unique collaboration of historians and ethicists whose engaged scholarship informs public health policy
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Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
APHA’s Code of Ethics
Public Health Leadership Society
WHO Ethics and Health publications
World Health Organization
Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader
An organized selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases on public health law, ethics, and human rights
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Lawrence O. Gostin
Good Decision Making in Real Time: Public Health Ethics Training for Local Health Departments
This is a primer published by the CDC to be used by local governments to strengthen their public health knowledge and abilities.