- Discuss the application of the following ethical theories/principles to public health. Provide recent examples within the field of public health which are consistent or inconsistent with these principles:
- Utilitarianism
- Distributive Justice
- Paternalism
- Selgelid (2009) wrote: "While public health ethicists often claim that the least restrictive alternative should be used to achieve the public health goal in question, I argue that a plausible but under-recognized idea is that the least restrictive alternative might sometimes involve improvement of global health via redistributive taxation-i.e., rather than coercive social distancing measures." What did he mean by this? Provide arguments for and against his position
Assignment Expectations
Length: Case assignments should be between 3 to 4 pages (750-1000 words) in length.
References: At least two references must be included from academic sources (e.g. peer-reviewed journal articles)