An Ethic for Health Promotion: Rethinking the Sources of Human Well-BeingOxford University Press, 2000 M01 20 - 232 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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... Taylor in his The Malaise of Mo- dernity , the book examines the rise of instrumental reason as one major source of modern moral malaise . Drug abuse , violence , promiscuous sexuality , the spread of human immunodeficiency virus ...
... Taylor in his The Malaise of Mo- dernity , the book examines the rise of instrumental reason as one major source of modern moral malaise . Drug abuse , violence , promiscuous sexuality , the spread of human immunodeficiency virus ...
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... Taylor's analysis of the rise of instrumental reason . A number of factors contrib- uting to the erosion of trust and social solidarity are reviewed , with particular attention to recent work on the decline of civil society . The role ...
... Taylor's analysis of the rise of instrumental reason . A number of factors contrib- uting to the erosion of trust and social solidarity are reviewed , with particular attention to recent work on the decline of civil society . The role ...
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... Taylor , Robert Bellah , Michael Sandel , and Martha Nussbaum , a philosopher , sociologist , political theorist , and classics scholar , re- spectively . Their thinking poses a thought - provoking alternative to the standard scientific ...
... Taylor , Robert Bellah , Michael Sandel , and Martha Nussbaum , a philosopher , sociologist , political theorist , and classics scholar , re- spectively . Their thinking poses a thought - provoking alternative to the standard scientific ...
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... Taylor analyzes the origins of modern malaise , identifying " the dark side of individualism " and " the primacy of instrumental reason " as the two principal sources.29 The pages that follow focus on the issue of instrumental reason ...
... Taylor analyzes the origins of modern malaise , identifying " the dark side of individualism " and " the primacy of instrumental reason " as the two principal sources.29 The pages that follow focus on the issue of instrumental reason ...
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... Taylor and others see at the core of our modern moral malaise . Taylor sees the growing recourse to instrumental reason as a " massively im- portant phenomenon " underlying the perplexing sense of loss , decline , and disin- tegration ...
... Taylor and others see at the core of our modern moral malaise . Taylor sees the growing recourse to instrumental reason as a " massively im- portant phenomenon " underlying the perplexing sense of loss , decline , and disin- tegration ...
Contents
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2 Contemporary Threats to Health | 23 |
3 The Limits of Science | 49 |
4 Iatrogenesis in Health Promotion | 71 |
5 Practical Reason | 85 |
6 Health and WellBeing | 102 |
7 Civility Trust and Community WellBeing | 119 |
8 A New Way of Practice | 133 |
9 Justice Caring Responsibility | 154 |
Notes | 171 |
References | 191 |
Index | 209 |
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