Steven Coughlin, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Dr. Coughlin was Chair of the committee that drafted the ethics guidelines for the American College of Epidemiology, and he served previously as a senior epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than eleven years.

• Preface


• Contributors


• PART I: FOUNDATIONS


• Chapter 1 - Historical Foundations


• Steven S. Coughlin


• PART II: KEY VALUES AND PRINCIPLES


• Chapter 2 - Epidemiology and Informed Consent


• Anna C. Mastroianni and Jeffrey P. Kahn




• Chapter 3 - Solidarity and the Common Good: Social Epidemiology and Relational Ethics in Public Health


• Bruce Jennings




• Chapter 4 - Understanding the Ethics of Risk as Used in Epidemiology


• Diego S. Silva




• Chapter 5 - Risk and Precaution: The Ethical Challenges of Translating Epidemiology into Action


• Stephen D. John


• PART III: METHODS


• Chapter 6 - Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Community-Based Intervention Studies


• Michelle C. Kegler, Steven S. Coughlin, and Karen Glanz


• PART IV: ISSUES


• Chapter 7 - Ethics in Public Health Practice


• Robert E. McKeown




• Chapter 8 - Ethics Issues in Genetic Epidemiology


• Laura M. Beskow, Stephanie M. Fullerton, and Wylie Burke




• Chapter 9 - Ethics, Epidemiology, and Changing Perspectives on AIDS


• Carol Levine




• Chapter 10 - Ethics Curricula in Epidemiology


• Kenneth W. Goodman and Ronald J. Prineas




• Chapter 11-Conflicts of Interest


• Walter Ricciardi and Carlo Petrini


• Index

Now updated with timely global examples, Ethics and Epidemiology, Third Edition provides an in-depth account to the theoretical and practical moral problems confronting public health students and professionals and offers guidance for how justified moral conclusions can be reached.