Ethics in Public Health Practice in India

Description

This edited volume draws on ten original contributions that locate ethics at the centre-stage of public health practice. The essays explicate ethical issues, challenges, deliberations and resolutions covering a broad canvas of public health practice including policies, programmes, research, training and advocacy. The contributors are academics and practitioners in varying roles and long-standing engagement with public health in diverse settings within India. Their expertise in disciplines range from anthropology, sociology, health communications, gender studies, economics, epidemiology, social work and medicine. Their chapters deal with dimensions of ethical dilemmas that can rarely be defined and contained within ethical guidelines and protocols alone. Instead, they throw light on the associated factors, value systems and contexts in which such complexities occur and require response or redressal. This volume aims to articulate the growing awareness among practitioners that public health ethics is not merely an advanced grouping of possible problems and solutions. It hopes to facilitate robust platforms for dialogue and debate on the subject through the lenses of these contributions. The book is conceptualized to reach broader audiences such as public health practitioners and researchers in several roles within Government health systems, NGOs/Grass root organizations/CSR initiatives/advocacy groups; as well as researchers in academic settings and facilitators involved in teaching ethics and imparting training for students and young practitioners of public health. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Locating Public Health Ethics (Arima Mishra, Kalyani Subbiah)....Pages 3-19 Public Health Rights and Ethics: Conflicts, Contestations and Expanding Horizons (Edward Premdas Pinto)....Pages 21-42 Front Matter ....Pages 43-43 Knowledge, Framing, and Ethics in Programme Design and Evaluation (Suraj Jacob)....Pages 45-61 Ethical Analysis of Public Health Programmes: What Does It Entail? (Giridhara R. Babu, A. Yamuna)....Pages 63-83 The Endosulfan Tragedy of Kasaragod: Health and Ethics in Non-health Sector Programs (Adithya Pradyumna, Jayakumar Chelaton)....Pages 85-104 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 Conducting Qualitative Research in/on Health Systems: Ethical Tensions, Confounders, and Silences (Surekha Garimella, Lakshmi K. Josyula)....Pages 107-120 Data Ethics in Epidemiology: Autonomy, Privacy, Confidentiality and Justice (Vijayaprasad Gopichandran, Varalakshmi Elango)....Pages 121-137 Ethical Issues and Challenges in Research on Gender, Reproductive Technologies and Market (Sarojini Nadimpally, Deepa Venkatachalam)....Pages 139-156 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 Public Health Ethics in the Medical College Curriculum: Challenges and Opportunities (Mario Vaz, Manjulika Vaz, Arvind Kasturi)....Pages 159-174 “Now We Feel Ethics Is Everywhere”: Reflections on Teaching a Course on Ethics in Public Health Practice (Arima Mishra)....Pages 175-189 Correction to: Data Ethics in Epidemiology: Autonomy, Privacy, Confidentiality and Justice (Vijayaprasad Gopichandran, Varalakshmi Elango)....Pages E1-E1