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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... social learning theory , social marketing , and empowerment . After critiquing current practices in health promotion , the book proposes a positive alternative . The fifth chapter provides a full account of practical reason as an ...
... social learning theory , social marketing , and empowerment . After critiquing current practices in health promotion , the book proposes a positive alternative . The fifth chapter provides a full account of practical reason as an ...
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... social practices that foster mindfulness about values that matter , which is essential for promoting human integrity . The chapter concludes with several specific examples of how this frame- work for thinking about the means and ends of ...
... social practices that foster mindfulness about values that matter , which is essential for promoting human integrity . The chapter concludes with several specific examples of how this frame- work for thinking about the means and ends of ...
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... social practices that enable people to live more closely in tune with the values of justice , caring , and ... practice of health promotion . The book closes with final reflections on the prospects for putting a new mode of health promo ...
... social practices that enable people to live more closely in tune with the values of justice , caring , and ... practice of health promotion . The book closes with final reflections on the prospects for putting a new mode of health promo ...
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... practices toward bringing people together as citizens and community members ... social scientists in general has been lamented ; the problem is probably ... practices and with the merits of an alternative approach is essential in order to ...
... practices toward bringing people together as citizens and community members ... social scientists in general has been lamented ; the problem is probably ... practices and with the merits of an alternative approach is essential in order to ...
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Contents
1 | |
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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