Toward a Normative Framework for Public Health Ethics and Policy
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This paper aims to shed some light on the difficulties we face in constructing a generally acceptable normative framework for thinking about public health. It argues that there are three factors which combine to make theorising about public health difficult, and which when taken together defeat simplistic top-down and
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