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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... direction for the field . The first chapter presents a sketch of the major themes that attest to the need for a new direction for the field of health promotion . The book starts from the premise that the nature of modern public health ...
... direction for the field . The first chapter presents a sketch of the major themes that attest to the need for a new direction for the field of health promotion . The book starts from the premise that the nature of modern public health ...
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... direction for the field . To illustrate the ethical pitfalls of the current approach , the fourth chapter de- tails three case studies on the iatrogenic effects of applying three prominent theo- ries now widely used in designing health ...
... direction for the field . To illustrate the ethical pitfalls of the current approach , the fourth chapter de- tails three case studies on the iatrogenic effects of applying three prominent theo- ries now widely used in designing health ...
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... direction marked by the concepts of well - being , integ- rity , virtues , autonomy , responsibility , civility , caring , and solidarity . These con- cepts better reflect the larger aims of the field and the direction advocated here ...
... direction marked by the concepts of well - being , integ- rity , virtues , autonomy , responsibility , civility , caring , and solidarity . These con- cepts better reflect the larger aims of the field and the direction advocated here ...
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... direction for the field of health promotion is now in order . I want to start by briefly reviewing several recent summaries regarding the state of American society . These works introduce the challenges we now face and present us with ...
... direction for the field of health promotion is now in order . I want to start by briefly reviewing several recent summaries regarding the state of American society . These works introduce the challenges we now face and present us with ...
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... direction of the field . First , a growing mass of evidence shows that the most carefully designed scientific interventions intended to reduce modern health problems have not proven successful . Carefully controlled , scientifically ...
... direction of the field . First , a growing mass of evidence shows that the most carefully designed scientific interventions intended to reduce modern health problems have not proven successful . Carefully controlled , scientifically ...
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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