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Integrating ethics in public health education: the process of developing case studies
The study of ethics in public health became a societal imperative following the horrors of pre World War II eugenics, the Holocaust, and the Tuskegee Experiment (and more recent similar travesties). International responses led to: the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trials, the Universal Declaration of Human Rig...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5809874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450032 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-015-0002-3 |
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description | The study of ethics in public health became a societal imperative following the horrors of pre World War II eugenics, the Holocaust, and the Tuskegee Experiment (and more recent similar travesties). International responses led to: the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trials, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), and the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CCPCG, 1948), which includes sanctions against incitement to genocide. The Declaration of Geneva (1948) set forth the physician’s dedication to the humanitarian goals of medicine, a declaration especially important in view of the medical crimes which had just been committed in Nazi Germany. This led to a modern revision of the Hippocratic Oath in the form of the Declaration of Helsinki (1964) for medical research ethical standards, which has been renewed periodically and adopted worldwide to ensure ethical research practices. Public health ethics differs from traditional biomedical ethics in many respects, specifically in its emphasis on societal considerations of prevention, equity, and population-level issues. Health care systems are increasingly faced with the need to integrate clinical medicine with public health and health policy. As health systems and public health evolve, the ethical issues in health care also bridge the gap between the separation of bioethics and public health ethics in the past. These complexities calls for the inclusion of ethics in public health education curricula and competencies across the many professions in public health, in the policy arena, as well as educational engagement with the public and the lay communities and other stakeholders. |
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spelling | pubmed-58098742018-02-15 Integrating ethics in public health education: the process of developing case studies Tulchinsky, Theodore Jennings, Bruce Viehbeck, Sarah Public Health Rev Review The study of ethics in public health became a societal imperative following the horrors of pre World War II eugenics, the Holocaust, and the Tuskegee Experiment (and more recent similar travesties). International responses led to: the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trials, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), and the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CCPCG, 1948), which includes sanctions against incitement to genocide. The Declaration of Geneva (1948) set forth the physician’s dedication to the humanitarian goals of medicine, a declaration especially important in view of the medical crimes which had just been committed in Nazi Germany. This led to a modern revision of the Hippocratic Oath in the form of the Declaration of Helsinki (1964) for medical research ethical standards, which has been renewed periodically and adopted worldwide to ensure ethical research practices. Public health ethics differs from traditional biomedical ethics in many respects, specifically in its emphasis on societal considerations of prevention, equity, and population-level issues. Health care systems are increasingly faced with the need to integrate clinical medicine with public health and health policy. As health systems and public health evolve, the ethical issues in health care also bridge the gap between the separation of bioethics and public health ethics in the past. These complexities calls for the inclusion of ethics in public health education curricula and competencies across the many professions in public health, in the policy arena, as well as educational engagement with the public and the lay communities and other stakeholders. BioMed Central 2015-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5809874/ /pubmed/29450032 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-015-0002-3 Text en © Tulchinsky et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Tulchinsky, Theodore Jennings, Bruce Viehbeck, Sarah Integrating ethics in public health education: the process of developing case studies |
title | Integrating ethics in public health education: the process of developing case studies |
title_full | Integrating ethics in public health education: the process of developing case studies |
title_fullStr | Integrating ethics in public health education: the process of developing case studies |
title_full_unstemmed | Integrating ethics in public health education: the process of developing case studies |
title_short | Integrating ethics in public health education: the process of developing case studies |
title_sort | integrating ethics in public health education: the process of developing case studies |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5809874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450032 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-015-0002-3 |
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