Ethics in public health practice in India / Arima Mishra.

This edited volume draws on ten original contributions that locate ethics at the centre-stage of public health practice. The essays explicate ethical issues, challenges, deliberations and resolutions covering a broad canvas of public health practice including policies, programmes, research, training and advocacy. The contributors are academics and practitioners in varying roles and long-standing engagement with public health in diverse settings within India. Their expertise in disciplines range from anthropology, sociology, health communications, gender studies, economics, epidemiology, social work and medicine. Their chapters deal with dimensions of ethical dilemmas that can rarely be defined and contained within ethical guidelines and protocols alone. Instead, they throw light on the associated factors, value systems and contexts in which such complexities occur and require response or redressal. This volume aims to articulate the growing awareness among practitioners that public health ethics is not merely an advanced grouping of possible problems and solutions. It hopes to facilitate robust platforms for dialogue and debate on the subject through the lenses of these contributions. The book is conceptualized to reach broader audiences such as public health practitioners and researchers in several roles within Government health systems, NGOs/​Grass root organizations/​CSR initiatives/​advocacy groups; as well as researchers in academic settings and facilitators involved in teaching ethics and imparting training for students and young practitioners of public health.

Intro; Foreword; Themes that Emerge in the Book; The Individual Self; Relationship; Communities; Values; Education; Wisdom and Values that Are Important to Public Health Ethics; Conclusion; Preface; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Part I: Introduction to Public Health Ethics and Rights; Chapter 1: Locating Public Health Ethics; Public Health Ethics as a Distinct Field of Inquiry; Doing Public Health Ethics; The Indian Context; Way Forward; References; Chapter 2: Public Health Rights and Ethics: Conflicts, Contestations and Expanding Horizons; Introduction.
Social Citizenship, Rights and EthicsRights and Ethics; Social Right to Health and Public Healthcare; Systemic Dimensions of Public Health Rights; Social Arrangements for Health and Healthcare; Public Health Rights as Balance of Power; Crisis of Public Healthcare and Rights in India; Constitutional Ambiguity and Lacuna of Legal Protection; Crisis in the Public Healthcare; Rights and Ethics Interface: Foregrounding Ethics for Public Health Rights and Social Right to Healthcare; Contestations, Dilemmas and Conflicts; Expanding the Horizons of Thinking Public Health Ethics; Conclusion.
Chapter 4: Ethical Analysis of Public Health Programmes: What Does It Entail?Background; Existing Ethical Frameworks for Public Health Practice; Methods; Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program; Justice; Beneficence; Respect for Persons; Resolution of Ethical Problems; Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccination Programme; Beneficence; Justice; Respect for Persons; Resolution; Disease Eradication Programmes; Beneficence; Justice; Respect to Persons; Resolution; Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: The Endosulfan Tragedy of Kasaragod: Health and Ethics in Non-health Sector Programs.
IntroductionRelief and Remediation: Response to the Crisis; The Role of Health Professionals: Assessing Public Health Impacts and Responses; Identification of Victims: Comprehensiveness and Associated Challenges; The Role Played by Local People and Local Government; Decision-Making in Designing Programmes of Other Sectors: Reflections; Towards Reducing Avoidable Disasters; Health Impact Assessment as a Potentially Useful Approach in Ethical Public Health Decision-Making; Responsibility, Resources and Sustainability of Relief and Remediation Programmes; Conclusions; References.