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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Page vii
... defined here in terms of integrity : gaining greater clarity about values that matter and aspiring to live one's life more closely attuned to those values . In contrast to the idea that health is something that can be produced through ...
... defined here in terms of integrity : gaining greater clarity about values that matter and aspiring to live one's life more closely attuned to those values . In contrast to the idea that health is something that can be produced through ...
Page xi
... Definition and Characteristics , 86 The Priority of Practical Reason , 93 The Warrants of Practical Reason , 99 6. Health and Well - Being , 102 The Myths of Hygeia and Asclepius , 104 The Difference and Relationship between Health and ...
... Definition and Characteristics , 86 The Priority of Practical Reason , 93 The Warrants of Practical Reason , 99 6. Health and Well - Being , 102 The Myths of Hygeia and Asclepius , 104 The Difference and Relationship between Health and ...
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... defined phenomena ; a ' decline in values ' is not . But the vagueness of the problem in no way undermines the ... define the anxiety of the age . " 14 Based on these diverse statistical portraits , collected by parties with different ...
... defined phenomena ; a ' decline in values ' is not . But the vagueness of the problem in no way undermines the ... define the anxiety of the age . " 14 Based on these diverse statistical portraits , collected by parties with different ...
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... defines it , " By ' instrumental reason , ' I mean the kind of rationality we draw on when we calculate the most economical applications of means to a given end . Maximum efficiency , the best cost - output ratio , is its measure of ...
... defines it , " By ' instrumental reason , ' I mean the kind of rationality we draw on when we calculate the most economical applications of means to a given end . Maximum efficiency , the best cost - output ratio , is its measure of ...
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... define the fundamental driving force behind the dis- tinctive pattern of modernization that evolved in the West . Weber developed this protean idea in an effort to explain why Western civilization progressed the way it did and why it ...
... define the fundamental driving force behind the dis- tinctive pattern of modernization that evolved in the West . Weber developed this protean idea in an effort to explain why Western civilization progressed the way it did and why it ...
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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