The closing conference of the research group "Normative Aspects of Public Health" combined international and interdisciplinary perspectives in trying to expand the framework of discussion to issues of normative significance that haven't been scrutinized sufficiently before in the relevant literature. Topics included sufficientarian and egalitarian approaches to health justice, the concept of solidarity, the capabilities approach to public health, issues of public policy as well as the responsibilities of the state in relation to citizens. The conference kicked off with a public panel discussion that focused mainly on the German political and legal situation in respect to health inequalities. Invited speakers during the conference included renowned scholars such as Daniel M. Hausman (University of Wisconsin), Alena Buyx (Universität Kiel), Sridhar Venkatapuram (King's College London), Kristin Voigt (McGill University, Montreal), and Daniel Weinstock (McGill University Montreal). Finally, the two research group leaders, Stefan Huster (Bochum) and Thomas Schramme (Hamburg) presented perspectives that stemmed from the discussions of the research group.
ZiF-Mitteilungen
Public Health Ethics, Vol. 8, No. 1, April 2015
Public Health: Beyond the Role of the State
Angus Dawson, Marcel Verweij
doi: 10.1093/phe/phv002
Expanding the Normative Framework of Public Health Ethics: Some Results from an Interdisciplinary Research Group
Stefan Huster, Thomas Schramme
doi: 10.1093/phe/phu043
Relational Liberty Revisited: Membership, Solidarity and a Public Health Ethics of Place
Bruce Jennings
doi: 10.1093/phe/phu045
Public Health Ethics. Problems and Suggestions
Volker H. Schmidt
doi: 10.1093/phe/phu040
Paying People to Act in Their Own Interests: Incentives versus Rationalization in Public Health
Jonathan Wolff
doi: 10.1093/phe/phu035
Comment on Paying People to Act in Their Own Interests: Incentives versus Rationalisation in Public Health by Jonathan Wolff
Mathias Kifmann
doi: 10.1093/phe/phu038
I Did it For the Money: Incentives, Rationalizations and Health
Moti Gorin, Harald Schmidt
doi: 10.1093/phe/phu034