Excellent Traits in Public Health: Virtuous Structures and the Structure of Virtue

Abstract MacKay’s Public Health Virtue Ethics offers a distinctive approach to public health ethics, with social structures at the forefront. MacKay’s helpful overview of the recent literature considers three distinct referents for ascribing virtues in public health ethics: (i) individuals, such as...

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