The journal Public Health Ethics, co-founded by Angus Dawson and myself in 2008, is the main academic journal focusing on philosophical, legal and ethical questions in public health and preventive care. The journal is interested to receive reviews of new books in this domain. If you are considering, as an academic of public health professional, to write a review, please contact me: m.f.verweij@uu.nl.

In some cases the publisher has sent a printed copy of the book that I can forward to you. In other cases they may want to make a digital copy available for review. In case a book is not on this list, please contact me. These are titles for which it would be desirable to see a book review in Public Health Ethics.

• Jonathan Moreno. Absolutely Essential. Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order. MITpress, 2025. (paperback available for review)
• Tim Jackson. The Care Economy. Polity, 2025.
• Michael D. Stein, Sandro Glass. The Turning Point. Reflections on a Pandemic. OUP 2024.
• Stephen Holland. Public Health Ethics 3rd edition. Polity, 2023.
• Mark C. Navin & Katie Attwell America’s New Vaccine Wars: California and the Politics of Mandates. (Oxford Univ. Press, 2023)
• Sridhar Venkatapuram, Alex Broadbent. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health. Routledge, 2023.
• Lisa Eckenwiler, Verina Wild, Anna Gotlib, Ryo Chung, Deborah Zion. Forced Migration and Health Justice. OUP, 2026.
• Barry S. Levy. Social Injustice and Public Health. OUP, 2026.

Books already reviewed

• T.M. Wilkinson. The Ethics of Public Health Paternalism. Oxford University Press, 2025 (open access). Reviewed by Byron Hyde, forthcoming.

• Andrew Lakoff. Planning for the Wrong Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Limits of Experts Knowledge. Cambridge,  Polity Press, 2024. Reviewed by Francis H Amuzu Public Health Ethics, Volume 18, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phaf015

• Holly Wardlow. Fencing in AIDS: Gender, Vulnerability and Care in Papua New Guinea. Reviewed by Katherine Furman, Public Health Ethics, Volume 15, Issue 2, July 2022, Pages 204–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phac020
• James Wilson. Philosophy for Public Health & Policy: Beyond the Neglectful State. Oxford University Press, 2021. Reviewed by Diego S. Silva. Public Health Ethics, Volume 15, Issue 2, July 2022, Pages 206–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phac018
• Friedman Howard Steven. Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life. Oakland, CA,  University of California Press, 2020. Reviewed by Leonard M Fleck. Public Health Ethics, Volume 14, Issue 2, July 2021, Pages 218–220, https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phab007

• Carina Fourie and Annette Rid, eds. What is Enough? Sufficiency, Justice, and Health. New York,  Oxford University Press, 2017. Reviewed by Beatrijs Haverkamp. Public Health Ethics, Volume 13, Issue 1, April 2020, Pages 122–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phz018.