• Part I. The Evolving Value Field of Healthcare


• 1: The Diffusion of the Public Health Agenda


• 2: Producing the Goods: Health, Welfare, and Well-being


• 3: Participation in Health Decisions: Patient and Community Empowerment


• Part II. Health Policy Ethics


• 4: Health Promotion and the Good Society


• 5: The Distribution of Health and Healthcare


• 6: Responsibility for Health


• Part III. Institutions and Vocations


• 7: Professional Ethics in Context


• 8: Managing Healthcare: Making or breaking healthcare goods?


• 9: The Boundaries of Professional Legitimacy


• Part IV. Education, Ethics, and Agenda Setting


• 10: Rethinking Health Education


• 11: Towards a Socially Reflexive Healthcare Ethics


• 12: Making the Health Agenda

What is health policy for? In Health and the Good Society, Alan Cribb addresses this question in a way that cuts across disciplinary boundaries. His core argument is that biomedical ethics should draw upon public health values and ethics; specifically, he argues that everybody has some share of responsibility for health, including a responsibility for promoting greater health equality. In the process, Cribb argues for a major rethink of the whole project of health education.