Contents -- I: The Scope of Public Health As Ethics -- Introduction: Ethical Theory and Public Health -- 1. Population Perspective -- Sick Individuals and Sick Populations -- Race or Class Versus Race and Class: Mortality Differentials in the United States -- What Explains the Public's Health?-A Call for Epidemiologic Theory -- II: Public Health As Community Perspective -- 2. Community -- Community: The Neglected Tradition of Public Health -- Security and Welfare -- Medicine and Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights -- 3. Prevention and Its Limits -- Public Health As Social Justice -- Analysis of Cause-Long-cut to Prevention? -- Paternalism -- III: Modern Challenges to the Public's Health -- 4. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs -- New Directions in Alcohol Policy -- Drug Prohibition: A Public Health Perspective -- Controlling Tobacco Advertising: The FDA Regulations and the First Amendment -- 5. Injury and Violence -- Energy Damage and the Ten Countermeasure Strategies -- Public Health Policy for Preventing Violence -- Violence Prevention: Criminal Justice or Public Health? -- 6. AIDS and Other Newly Emergent Diseases -- The AIDS Exception: Privacy vs. Public Health -- Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Civil Liberties -- Medical Science, Infectious Disease, and the Unity of Humankind -- Emerging Diseases and Ecosystem Instability: New Threats to Public Health -- 7. Justice and Health Care -- For and Against Equal Access to Health Care -- Market Meditopia: A Glimpse at American Health Care in 2005 -- Trust and Trustworthy Care in the Managed Care Era -- National Health Care Reform Minus Public Health: A Formula for Failure -- IV: New Technology and the Public's Health -- 8. Reproductive Issues -- The Resurgence of Eugenics -- Infertility As a Public Health Problem: Why Assisted Reproductive Technologies Are Not the Answer.

How Many People Can the Earth Support? -- 9. Genetic Screening, Testing, and Therapy -- Ethical Implications of Screening Asymptomatic Individuals -- Prenatal Genetic Testing and Screening: Constructing Needs and Reinforcing Inequities -- Germ-Line Gene Therapy -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V.