Commentary on “The limits of law in the protection of public health and the role of public health ethics”

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1. For discussion of the first two issues, see: Verweij M, Dawson A. The meaning of “public” in public health. In: Dawson A, Verweij M, editors. Ethics, prevention, and public health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
2. Except, of course, for smallpox.
3. See the sometimes brutal debate over the US Model Emergency Powers Act in, for example, Hodge JG, Gostin LO. Protecting the public's health in an era of bioterrorism: the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act; Annas G. Terrorism and human rights. In: Moreno JD, editors. In the wake of terror: medicine and morality in a time of crisis. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Book/MIT Press; 2003.
4. R v Board of Trustees of the Science Museum [1993] ICR 876.
5. See, for example, Mill JS. On Liberty. Reprinted 1974. Harmondsworth: Penguin; 1959. Feinberg J. Social philosophy. Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; 1973; Feinberg J. Harm to others. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1984.
6. See Bayer R, Fairchild AL. The genesis of public health ethics. Bioethics, 2004;18(16):473–92; Scanlon TM. What we owe to each other. Harvard: Harvard University Press; 2000. Jennings B. Public health and civic republicanism: toward an alternative framework for public health ethics. In: Dawson A, Verweij M, editors. Ethics, prevention, and public health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming; Ross, WD. The right and the good Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
7. Dawson A, Garrard E. In defence of moral imperialism: four equal and universal prima facie duties. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2006;32(4):200–204
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8. Klosko G. Presumptive benefit, fairness and political obligation. Philosophy Public Affairs 1987;16(3): 241–59: 242–3.
9. Rawls, A theory of justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1971.
10. For more on public goods, see Dawson A, Herd protection as a public good: vaccination and our obligations to others. In: Dawson A, Verweij (Eds) Ethics, prevention and public health. Oxford; OUP, forthcoming.
11. See Lawrence O. Gostin's essay in this series ‘Legal foundations of public health law and its role in meeting future challenges’ for some discussion.