Communicable Disease Control in the New Millenium: A qualitative inquiry on the legitimate use of restrictive measures in an era of rights consciousness - Couverture souple

Bensimon, Cécile M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3838382854 ISBN 13 : 9783838382852

Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The issuance of thousands of quarantine orders duringthe SARS outbreak raised difficult questions aboutthe legitimacy of using restrictive measures in democratic societies. This inquirycombines empirical research with conceptualscholarship to establish foundational justificatorypower for restrictive interventions, which thedominant utilitarian justification lacks. It isargued that, to respect rights, while being committedto the common good, we must move beyond thesee-sawing between ostensibly competing requirementstoward a conception that gives equal weight to public health and human rights; that is, one where bothimperatives – the community and the individual –refer to one another without dissolving into theother based on their intersubjective recognition.Following a Habermasian account of opening processesof decision-making to a moral-practical discourse, itis further argued that public health ethics offers animportant site for integrating his model of discourse ethics within public health deliberations to expand the scope of moral argumentation on-and ultimately to ground the justification of--the use of restrictive measures.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3838382854
• ISBN 13: 9783838382852
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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