The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health

Sridhar Venkatapuram is Associate Professor of Global Health and Philosophy at King’s College London, UK. He is based at the Global Health Institute, where he is Deputy Director, and Director of Global Health Education. He publishes widely across various disciplines, has helped establish health justice philosophy, and has worked in various ethics advisory roles to public and global health institutions. He is the author of Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach (2011) and co-editor of Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of Covid-19 (2020). He can be found at @sridhartweet. Alex Broadbent is Professor of Philosophy of Science at Durham University, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research concerns the philosophy of epidemiology and medicine, causation, counterfactuals, prediction, complexity, conceptual aspects of machine learning, and scientific evidence in law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Philosophy of Medicine. He is an Associate Member of Millennium Chambers, The Barrister Network, London.

Introduction: Philosophy and Public Health Alex Broadbent and Sridhar Venkatapuram Part 1: Concepts and Distinctions 1. The Public in Public Health John Coggon 2. Medicine and Public Health Daniel Steel 3. Groups and Individuals Stephen John 4. Concepts of Health and Disease in Public Health Benjamin Smart 5. Public Health and Ethics Sridhar Venkatapuram 6. The Philosophical Implications of Fundamental Cause Theory Daniel Goldberg 7. Causal Pluralism and Public Health Federica Russo Part 2: Reasons and Actions 8. External Validity and Public Health Chad Harris 9. Explanation in Public Health Olaf Dammann 10. Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Mathew Mercuri and Ross E. G. Upshur 11. Profiling in Public Health Winnie Ma 12. Big Data and Public Health Derek W. Braverman 13. Machine Learning and Public Health: Philosophical Issues Thomas Grote and Alex Broadbent Part 3: Distribution and Inequalities 14. Capabilities, Human Flourishing, and the Health Gap Michael Marmot 15. Measuring Social Position in Health Inequality Research Mel Bartley 16. Race and Racism in Public Health M.A. Diamond-Hunter 17. Sex and Gender Blind Spots and Biases in Health Research Avni Amin, Lavanya Vijayasingham, and Jacqui Stevenson 18. Global Health Indicators and Data: Communicative Signs and Sites of Contest Sara L. M. Davis 19. Securitization and Health Jeremy Youde 20. Health, Place and Justice: A Philosophical Appraisal of Promoting Equity in Covid-19 through Disadvantage Indices Samantha Fritz, Tuhina Srivastava, Emily Sadecki, and Harald Schmidt Part 4: Rights and Duties 21. Social Justice and Public Health Maxwell J. Smith 22. Health, Healthcare, and Public Health as Objects of (Human) Rights Michael Da Silva 23. Disability Justice and Public Health Agnès Berthelot-Raffard 24. Ageing and Justice in Health: A Conceptual Map toward a Unified View Kebadu Mekonnen Gebremariam and Ritu Sadana 25. Philosophical Issues in Cancer and Public Health Anya Plutynski 26. Public Health, Human Rights, and Philosophy Kristen Hessler. Index