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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... 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 problems has shifted , and hence their amelioration will require a ...
... 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 problems has shifted , and hence their amelioration will require a ...
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... major critique of the standard program of scien- tific research on health behaviors , examining the epistemological shortcomings and ethical pitfalls of the positivist research agenda . It opens with a brief history of shifts in ...
... major critique of the standard program of scien- tific research on health behaviors , examining the epistemological shortcomings and ethical pitfalls of the positivist research agenda . It opens with a brief history of shifts in ...
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... major concerns of this book . The first article , " Clinton Wants Anti - Drug Ads for Youth , " described the Clinton administration's proposal to spend $ 175 million on a na- tional advertising campaign to dissuade teenagers from ...
... major concerns of this book . The first article , " Clinton Wants Anti - Drug Ads for Youth , " described the Clinton administration's proposal to spend $ 175 million on a na- tional advertising campaign to dissuade teenagers from ...
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... major obstacle to alleviating these health prob- lems is the interjection of moral and political compunctions into health policy decisions . The panel sees public objections to needle exchange and sex education programs as foolishly ...
... major obstacle to alleviating these health prob- lems is the interjection of moral and political compunctions into health policy decisions . The panel sees public objections to needle exchange and sex education programs as foolishly ...
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... major au- thors discussed are Charles Taylor , Robert Bellah , Michael Sandel , and Martha Nussbaum , a philosopher , sociologist , political theorist , and classics scholar , re- spectively . Their thinking poses a thought - provoking ...
... major au- thors discussed are Charles Taylor , Robert Bellah , Michael Sandel , and Martha Nussbaum , a philosopher , sociologist , political theorist , and classics scholar , re- spectively . Their thinking poses a thought - provoking ...
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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