Presenting the history and development of medical ethics, this is the first publication to deal with all aspects of the serious ethical problems which arise in planning and implementing health promotion and preventive medicine projects. Contributors discuss legal and economic aspects of the subject, ethical issues which often arise in epidemiological research and preventive medicine, ethical aspects of occupational health, child health care and population control, and the role of mass media in the field of health communication. Special attention is paid to the ethical dilemmas inherent in the allocation of increasingly scarce resources, and to the current conflict between the freedom of the individual to make his or her own health decisions and the perceived good of the community as a whole. Read Less