title: Person: centre both of clinical ethics  and of public health ethics. Commentary.
abstract: The "public health" perspective is different from the ″patient-centred″ clinical perspective for various reasons. Tensions between collective and individual interests are unavoidable in public health. Intersections between public health ethics and clinical bioethics can be traced to a set of duties which derive from respect of the person. Human rights and solidarity are "person-centred" cornerstones of both clinical and public health ethics.
authors.affiliation: Unità di Bioetica, Presidenza, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. carlo.petrini@iss.it
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Petrini
mesh_terms: D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D006040:Goals; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D028723:Personhood; D011634:Public Health / Q000941:ethics*; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012935:Social Justice