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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... ends of achiev- ing human well - being . The book is divided into two parts . Chapters 1-4 describe the shortcomings and pitfalls of the scientific framework for thinking about the practice of health promotion . The remainder of the ...
... ends of achiev- ing human well - being . The book is divided into two parts . Chapters 1-4 describe the shortcomings and pitfalls of the scientific framework for thinking about the practice of health promotion . The remainder of the ...
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... ends of health promotion can be put into practice . The seventh chapter takes up the question of community well - being . It starts with a synopsis of Michael Sandel's analysis of the sources of our current civic discontents . In his ...
... ends of health promotion can be put into practice . The seventh chapter takes up the question of community well - being . It starts with a synopsis of Michael Sandel's analysis of the sources of our current civic discontents . In his ...
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... end . Maximum efficiency , the best cost - output ratio , is its measure of success . " 30 There are undoubtedly other factors contributing to the development of contemporary social health problems , but as this book shows ...
... end . Maximum efficiency , the best cost - output ratio , is its measure of success . " 30 There are undoubtedly other factors contributing to the development of contemporary social health problems , but as this book shows ...
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... end , to the neglect and det- riment of the evaluation of the ends themselves . As the sociologist Philip Selznick states , " Reason is instrumental when it abdicates responsibility for determining ends and restricts itself to ways and ...
... end , to the neglect and det- riment of the evaluation of the ends themselves . As the sociologist Philip Selznick states , " Reason is instrumental when it abdicates responsibility for determining ends and restricts itself to ways and ...
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... end , but less and less about distinguishing which ends are worth pursuing . Science can explain the world by making it predictable , but it cannot help us find purpose in life . It can tell us how to live longer , but not why we should ...
... end , but less and less about distinguishing which ends are worth pursuing . Science can explain the world by making it predictable , but it cannot help us find purpose in life . It can tell us how to live longer , but not why we should ...
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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