Ethics, Values and Epistemology of Health Practice

Public-health decisions are never purely technical: they also involve values, uncertainty, competing duties, unequal burdens, and questions of legitimate authority.Ethics, Values and Epistemology of Health Practice examines the ethical and epistemic foundations of population-health decision-making. It explores autonomy, justice, proportionality, vulnerability, dignity, precaution, distributive choices, emergency ethics, and the moral implications of uncertainty.The volume also addresses contemporary questions surrounding health data, artificial intelligence, genomics, surveillance, crisis research, reproducibility, conflicts of interest, expert disagreement, and institutional integrity.Throughout, ethical reasoning is kept distinct from legal authority, empirical evidence, technical feasibility, and political consensus. Rather than offering a universal moral formula, the book develops a structured approach to identifying affected parties, examining competing reasons, evaluating evidence and uncertainty, and making decisions open to justification, review, and revision.Written for advanced students, researchers, health professionals, ethicists, and policymakers, it provides an interdisciplinary framework for responsible reasoning in population health.