Volume 86, Number 8, August 2008, 577-656

THIS MONTH'S SPECIAL THEME: ETHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Primary health care; Religion and science; Positive policy change; Denaturalizing scarcity; Migrant health; Many barriers to treatment; Ethics versus economics; A human rights approach; Ethics and technology; Ethical oversight needed; A personalist approach; Guidelines for herbal medicine research; Emerging epidemics; Time to revisit surgery; Health sector needs to support abused women
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EDITORIALS

The contribution of ethics to public health
- Carl H Coleman et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.055954
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The importance of public-health ethics
- John Krebs
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052431
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Drug donations: what lies beneath
- Cristina P Pinheiro
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048546
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NEWS

News
Clinical trials in India: ethical concerns
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Overcoming migrants’ barriers to health
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Iranian health houses open the door to primary care
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From rhetoric to reality. An interview with Mary Robinson.
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Recent news from WHO
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POLICY AND PRACTICE

Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health: history, connections and a proposed practical approach
- Sofia Gruskin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050500
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Herbal medicine research and global health: an ethical analysis
- Jon C Tilburt & Ted J Kaptchuk
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042820
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Denaturalizing scarcity: a strategy of enquiry for public-health ethics
- Ted Schrecker
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050880
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Integrating ethics, health policy and health systems in low- and middle-income countries: case studies from Malaysia and Pakistan
- Adnan A Hyder et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051110
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Demographic and health surveillance: longitudinal ethical considerations
- Margaret Carrel & Stuart Rennie
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051037
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Ethical analysis to improve decision-making on health technologies
- Samuli I Saarni et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051078
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A personalist approach to public-health ethics
- Carlo Petrini & Sabina Gainotti
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051193
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National bioethical legislation and guidelines for biomedical research in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Farzaneh Zahedi & Bagher Larijani
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050724
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Health-sector responses to intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income settings: a review of current models, challenges and opportunities
- Manuela Colombini et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045906
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PERSPECTIVES

Emerging norms for the control of emerging epidemics
- Christopher W McDougall et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051771
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The burden of surgical conditions and access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries
- Doruk Ozgediz et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050435
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Access to medicines versus access to treatment: the case of type 1 diabetes
- David Beran et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048710
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PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS

The Declaration of Helsinki and public health
- John R Williams
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050955
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BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Just health: meeting health needs fairly
- Annette Rid
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054601
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Ethics and infectious disease
- Ross Upshur
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056242
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Cambridge textbook of bioethics
- Robert Dingwall
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051870
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LETTERS

Accessible public-health education: a potential growth area?
- David Sanders et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051334
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Estimation of global visual impairment due to uncorrected refractive error
- Lalit Dandona & Rakhi Dandona
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053652
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Author reply to: Estimation of global visual impairment due to uncorrected refractive error
- Silvio Mariotti et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056366
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Country ownership and vertical programmes in health, health information and health research
- Andrew Kennedy & Carel IJsselmuiden
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052993
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Integrating cervical cancer prevention in HIV/AIDS treatment and care programmes
- Mulindi H Mwanahamuntu et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056275
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Evaluation of the WHO Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems
- Shekhar Saxena et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056341
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