Public health, beneficence and cosmopolitan justice

Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change

It is widely recognized that changes are occurring to the earth’s climate and, further, that these changes threaten important human interests. This raises the question of who should bear the burdens of addressing global climate change. This paper aims to provide an answer to this question. To do so it focuses on the principle that those who cause the problem are morally responsible forsolvingit...

Between beneficence and justice: the ethics of stewardship in medicine.

In an era of rapidly rising health care costs, physicians and policymakers are searching for new and effective ways to contain health care spending without sacrificing the quality of services provided. These proposals are increasingly articulated in terms of an ethical duty of stewardship. The duty of stewardship in medicine, however, is not at present well understood, and it is frequently conf...

Justice or Beneficence: What Regulatory Virtue for Nano-Governance?

With nanotechnology we are not only moving into a new technological world but into 'a new legal, ethical, economic, social, cultural and political one too'. The article examines the questions of value preference in this transition to the new technological world and proposes to employ the moral concept of beneficence as a regulatory virtue for the governance of nanotechnology. Setting up the con...

Violence prevention: criminal justice or public health?

Health Affairs Justice Or Public Health ? Perspective : Violence Prevention : Criminal