Philosophical and Methodological Debates in Public Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Philosophical Debates on Public Health

   • Angel Puyol

   Pages 1-7

3. Diseases, Problems or Needs: A Framework for Public Health

   • Andreu Segura-Benedicto

   Pages 9-20

4. Critical Epidemiology in Latin America: Roots, Philosophical and Methodological Ruptures

   • Jaime Breilh

   Pages 21-45

5. Lost in Causality: How Epidemiology’s Counterfactual Causal Inference Revolution Upholds Class, Race and Gender Inequities

   • Carles Muntaner, James R. Dunn

   Pages 47-58

6. Coeliac Disease and Non-coeliac Gluten Sensitivity: A Clinical and Philosophical Discussion

   • F. Borrell-Carrió, E. Peguero-Rodríguez, V. Morales-Hidalgo, J. Castellote-Alonso, A. Estany

   Pages 59-72

7. Progress in Biomedical Sciences and Raw Data: Ethical Dilemmas

   • David Casacuberta, Simone Tassani

   Pages 73-83

8. Design Epistemology for Public Health Research

   • A. Estany

   Pages 85-106

9. Invisible Victims and Public Health: Epistemic Injustices in the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma

   • María del Mar Cabezas, Carlos Pitillas

   Pages 107-124

10. Social Determinants of Health: Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities

    • Oriol Farrés-Juste

    Pages 125-136

11. The Public Dimension of Care: Towards a Public Ethics of Care

    • Txetxu Ausín

    Pages 137-148

12. Genetic Prevention, Carrier Screening and the Role of Citizens: The Legitimisation of Libertarian Paternalist Policies by Deliberative Democracy

    • Baroukh Maurice Assael, Giovanni Boniolo

    Pages 149-161

13. Public Health and Inequities Under Capitalism: Systemic Effects and Human Rights

    • Joan Benach, Juan Manuel Pericàs, Eliana Martínez-Herrera, Mireia Bolíbar

    Pages 163-179

14. Ethics and Public Health Policies

    • Ildefonso Hernández-Aguado, Elisa Chilet-Rosell, María Pastor-Valero

    Pages 181-194

15. What Is and What Is Not a Conflict of Interest in the Sphere of Public Health

    • Miguel Ángel Royo-Bordonada, Fernando García-López

    Pages 195-214

This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics. The contributions were originally presented at the 1st Barcelona conference of “Philosophy of Public Health” (5th – 7th May 2016). This book is intended for researchers interested in public health and the contemporary debates surrounding it.

 

• epidemiological big data statistics
• e-epidemiology
• global health
• bioethics
• epistemology
• epistemic injustice
• recognition
• intergenerational trauma
• Social Determinants of Health
• Health quality
• Human right to health

• Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Jordi Vallverdú, Angel Puyol, Anna Estany

Jordi Vallverdú, is a Tenured Professor at the Philosophy Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he teaches philosophy and history of science and computing. His research focuses on the cognitive and epistemic aspects of the philosophy of computing, philosophy of science and AI, particularly emotional modeling. In 2011 he won a Japanese JSPS fellowship to pursue research on computational HRI at the Nishidalab, Kyoto University. His most recent books include Bayesians versus Frequentists. A Philosophical Debate on Statistical Reasoning (2016), and Blended Cognition: The Robotic Challenge (2019) both edited by Springer Verlag. He is currently working on biomimetic cognitive architectures and multi-cognitive systems, as well as on medical and epidemiological reasoning.

Angel Puyol is an Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he teaches ethics and political philosophy. His researchfocuses on the theories of justice and bioethics. He was a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics, New York University and La Sapienza (Roma). His most recent book is Political Fraternity. Democracy beyond Freedom and Equality (Routledge, New York, 2019), and he is currently investigating solidarity in health.


Anna Estany is an Emeritus Full Professor at the Philosophy Department of the Universitat Autònoma Barcelona. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches in epistemology and philosophy of science, as well as design sciences. She holds a Master of Arts from Indiana University, and a PhD from the Universitat of Barcelona, and she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California San Diego. Her publications include Vida, muerte y resurrección de la conciencia. Análisis filosófico de las revoluciones científicas en la psicología contemporánea, (1999); Barcelona: Paidós, ¿EUREKA? El transfondo de un descubrimiento sobre el cáncer y lagenética molecular, (2003) with D. Casacuberta; Barcelona: Tusquets (Metatemas) and Innovación en el saber teórico y práctico, with R.M. Herrera, 2016, College Publications. She is currently investigating medical and epidemiological reasoning and design epistemology.

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