%0 Journal Article %T Person: centre both of clinical ethics and of public health ethics %A Petrini %A Carlo %J Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanit¨¤ %D 2012 %I Kurtis srl %R 10.4415/ANN_12_01_01 %X 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 "personcentred" cornerstones of both clinical and public health ethics. %K ethics %K medical ethics %K personhood %K public health. %U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0021-25712012000100001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en