

An edition of The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine (2012)
Serving Society or Serving the Patient?
By Niklas Juth
Publish Date
2012
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Language
eng
Pages
186
Description:
Medical or health-oriented screening programs are amongst the most debated aspects of health care and public health practices in health care and public health ethics, as well as health policy discussions. In spite of this, most treatments of screening in the research literature restrict themselves to isolated scientific aspects, sometimes complemented by economic analyses or loose speculations regarding policy aspects. At the same time, recent advances in medical genetics and technology, as well as a rapidly growing societal focus on public health concerns, inspires an increase in suggested or.