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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... understanding of what counts as valid knowledge ) , looking at the rise in the power and prestige of the scientific method in the modern era relative to other alternative ways of understanding the human condition . The chapter then ...
... understanding of what counts as valid knowledge ) , looking at the rise in the power and prestige of the scientific method in the modern era relative to other alternative ways of understanding the human condition . The chapter then ...
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... understandings of the com- mon good has waned , we have been drawn increasingly towards the idea that we need stronger procedural protections of individual rights . Parallels are then drawn between Sandel's concerns with the emergence ...
... understandings of the com- mon good has waned , we have been drawn increasingly towards the idea that we need stronger procedural protections of individual rights . Parallels are then drawn between Sandel's concerns with the emergence ...
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... understanding the origins of these modern maladies . The major au- thors discussed are Charles Taylor , Robert Bellah , Michael Sandel , and Martha Nussbaum , a philosopher , sociologist , political theorist , and classics scholar , re ...
... understanding the origins of these modern maladies . The major au- thors discussed are Charles Taylor , Robert Bellah , Michael Sandel , and Martha Nussbaum , a philosopher , sociologist , political theorist , and classics scholar , re ...
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... understandings about how people ought to lead their lives . The increasing significance of human volitions in modern health prob- lems takes us inexorably into the realm of ethical and political concerns . The question " How should one ...
... understandings about how people ought to lead their lives . The increasing significance of human volitions in modern health prob- lems takes us inexorably into the realm of ethical and political concerns . The question " How should one ...
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... understanding the nature of modern health issues , specifically those with a social and behavioral etiology . These explana- tions seem particularly meager when compared to the results of research in the medical sciences . In addition ...
... understanding the nature of modern health issues , specifically those with a social and behavioral etiology . These explana- tions seem particularly meager when compared to the results of research in the medical sciences . In addition ...
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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