Ethics in epidemiology and public health I. Technical terms

Ethics in epidemiology and public health has emerged from several sources: most obvious is the discipline of bioethics, with its theories, methods, case studies, and familiar textbooks. Ethics) A field of inquiry and academic discipline at the intersection of ethics and the life sciences. 7 Emerging with an emphasis upon problems faced in the practice of medicine and biomedical research, bioethics has overlapping areas of scholarship and application: theory and method, clinical practice, regulatory policy, research practice, cultural and social concerns, 8 and recently, public health and epidemiology. 9 Case or Case study (see also: Cases provide specific circumstances involving a patient (in medical ethics), a study participant or group (in research ethics) or a population (in public health ethics).