An Ethic for Health Promotion: Rethinking the Sources of Human Well-BeingOxford University Press, USA, 2000 M01 20 - 214 pages What are the goals of health promotion and the most apropriate means of achieving them? The prevailing view is that these goals are to prolong life and reduce mortality rates. Since the leading causes of morbidity and mortality are now largely attributable to lifestyle behaviors--smoking, diet, exercise, etc.--the means of achieving reductions in heart disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes and other chronic conditins are to identify more effective techniques for changing people's behavior. Virtually all health promotion research is currently directed towards accomplishing this objective. But at what cost? As researchers strive for more effective ways to change people's behavior, what are the implications for individual autonomy, integrity, and responsibility? Buchanan sets out to explain why a science of health promotion is neither imminent or estimable. He argues that health promotin is inescapably a moral and political endeavor and that goals more befitting the realization of human well-being are to promote self-knowledge, individual autonomy, integrity, and responsibility through putting into practice more democratic processes of self-direction and mutual support in civil society. |
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... SCIENCE For those committed to the development of a science of health promotion , progress will be achieved through testing and proving scientific theories regarding human behavior . These theories provide the basis for developing more ...
... SCIENCE For those committed to the development of a science of health promotion , progress will be achieved through testing and proving scientific theories regarding human behavior . These theories provide the basis for developing more ...
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... science of health promotion contribute to the malaise and decline in values perceived by pundits surveying the state of health and social conditions in modern America ? To reiterate , Taylor argues that individualism and instrumental ...
... science of health promotion contribute to the malaise and decline in values perceived by pundits surveying the state of health and social conditions in modern America ? To reiterate , Taylor argues that individualism and instrumental ...
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... health problems lies in the choices people make about how they want to live their lives , then we need to rethink whether the commitment to an empirical , experimental science is adequate or appropriate for dealing with them . The ...
... health problems lies in the choices people make about how they want to live their lives , then we need to rethink whether the commitment to an empirical , experimental science is adequate or appropriate for dealing with them . The ...
Contents
Disquietudes | 1 |
Contemporary Threats to Health | 23 |
The Limits of Science | 49 |
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