All readings are on Leganto, except those that were not digitized (see KEATS)

• Further readings: https://emckclac-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/personal/k2368967_kcl_ac_uk/Documents/Further ReadingPublic Health.docx?d=w9dca9bfd8e884c20b9c4c7d1b25f9039&csf=1&web=1&e=VOcvro

Week 1: Public Health Ethics: Core Questions & Frameworks [Oct 1]

📚Readings:

• Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2007). Public Health: Ethical Issues. London: The Council. (Chapter 2)
• Coggon, J. (2008). “Harmful rights-doing? The perceived problem of liberal paradigms and public health.” Journal of Medical Ethics, 34, 798–801.
• Goodin, R. (1989). “The ethics of smoking.” Ethics, 99, 574–624.

Optional: Enoch, "Hypothetical Consent and the Value(s) of Autonomy"

Questions to Guide Reading:

• What role should government play in promoting behaviors that produce good health and discouraging or forbidding behaviors that lead to ill health and early death?
• What different kinds of justification are given for government playing these roles?

Week 2: Nudging for Health Promotion [Oct 8]

📚Readings:

• Thaler, R. H. & Sunstein, C. R. (2008). Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Excerpts: pp. 1–15, 184–192, 235–252.
• Schmidt, A. T. & Engelen, B. (2020). “The ethics of nudging: an overview.” Philosophy Compass, 15, e12658.
• Soled, D. (2021). “Public health nudges: weighing individual liberty and population health benefits.” Journal of Medical Ethics, 47, 756–760.