1st Edition
Public Health Virtue Ethics Institutions, Structures, and Political Virtue for the Good Society
By Kathryn L. MacKay
Copyright 2026
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book argues that virtue ethics should be incorporated into public health ethics. It provides the theoretical foundations for a virtue ethics that is applicable to public health, as well as political institutions more broadly.
Ethical analyses of public health policies and practices have been mostly conducted in terms of examining the best consequences or weighing outcomes against liberty,... Read more
Introduction
1. Public Health, Institutions, and Agency
2. Political Virtue and Vice
3. Justice in Public Health Virtue Ethics
4. The Political Virtue of Civic Friendship
5. Institutional Epistemic Humility
Conclusion
Biography
Kathryn L. MacKay is Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney. Her work focuses on applied philosophy, feminist philosophy, and virtue ethics.
