title: An ethical and prudential argument for prioritizing the reduction of parasite-stress in the allocation of health care resources.
abstract: The link between parasite-stress and complex psychological dispositions implies that the social, political, and economic benefits likely to flow from public health interventions that reduce rates of non-zoonotic infectious disease are far greater than have traditionally been thought. We sketch a prudential and ethical argument for increasing public health resources globally and redistributing these to focus on the alleviation of parasite-stress in human populations.
authors.affiliation: Science and Religious Conflict Project, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Institute for Science and Ethics, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1-1PT, United Kingdom. russell.powell@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Powell
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Savulescu
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D013315:Stress, Psychological