The Steward of the Millian State

One important reason why public health ethics is such an exciting area of bioethics is that we are just at the beginning of exploring the relevant conceptual and theoretical issues. There has, of course, been previous work done on these themes, but there are few (if any) well-worked-out ‘theories’ of public health ethics that can either be easily supported or contested. The fairest summary of the present position is to say that we have a number...