Subject(s): Medical policy -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Public Health -- Ethics -- Health Planning -- Health Policy -- Social Problems -- Scope of public health as ethics : Ethical theory and public health, population perspective, sick individuals and sick populations, mortality differentials in US, epidemiologic theory -- Public health as community perspective : Community, neglected tradition of public health, security and wealth, medicine and public health, ethics and human rights, prevention and its limits, public health as social justice, analysis of cause, paternalism -- Modern challenges to public's health : Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, new directions in alcohol policy, drug prohibition- public health policy, controlling tobacco advertising- FDA regulations and first amendment, injuries and violence- energy damage and ten countermeasure strategies, public health policy for preventing violence, violence prevention- criminal justice or public health, AIDS and other newly emerged diseases, AIDs exception- privacy v/s public health, tuberculosis, public health and civil liberties, medical science, infectious disease and unity of humankind, emerging diseases and ecosystem instability- new threats to public health, justice and health care, for and against equal access to health care, market meditopia- glimpse at American health care in 2005, trust and trustworthy care in managed care era, national health care reform minus public health -- New technology and public's health : Reproductive issues, resurgence of eugenics, infertility as a public health problem- why assisted reproductive technologies are not the answer, earth supporters, genetic screening, testing and therapy, ethical implications of screening asymptomatic individuals, prenatal genetic testing and screening- constructing needs and reinforcing inequalities, germ line gene therapy