Nicholas G. Evans is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

A Note on Acronyms ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 1
2 The War Metaphor 19
3 Reconciling Military and Public Health Ethics 37
4 The Impersonal Account of Disease 63
5 The Moral Foundations of the Public Health State 91
6 Justly Declaring an Emergency 115
7 The Ethics of Liberty-Limiting Measures 133
8 Drawing up the Troops: Waging War on Disease 153
9 Peace in Public Health 167
10 Whose War? Policy and Public Health Politics 177
Epilogue: Emergency Innovation 189
Notes 205
Index 257