Promoting Healthy Behavior: How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility?Daniel Callahan Georgetown University Press, 04/02/2000 - 192 من الصفحات The government, the media, HMOs, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually transmitted disease is rampant. Why? These intriguing essays examine the ethical and social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing Americans' unhealthy behavior. The contributors raise profound questions about the role of the state or employers in trying to change health-related behavior, about the actual health and economic benefits of even trying, and about the freedom and responsibility of those of us who, as citizens, will be the target of such efforts. They ask, for instance, whether we are all equally free to live healthy lives or whether social and economic conditions make a difference. Do disease prevention programs actually save money, as is commonly argued? What is the moral legitimacy of using economic and other incentives to change people's behavior, especially when (as with HMOs) the goal is to control costs? One key issue explored throughout the book is the fundamental ambivalence of traditionally libertarian Americans about health promotion programs: we like the idea of good health, but we do not want government or others posing threats to our personal lifestyle choices. The contributors argue that such programs will continue to prove less than wholly successful without a fuller examination of their place in our national values. |
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... Contexts and Controversies 1 BEVERLY OVREBO Health Promotion and Civil Liberties : The Price of Freedoms and the Price of Health 23 HELEN HALPIN SCHAUFFLER The Credibility of Claims for the Economic Benefits of Health Promotion 37 E ...
... we all equally free ( or equally unfree ) or does our social and economic context make a difference ? Beverly Ovrebo carries those concerns into the legal arena , ix DANIEL CALLAHAN DANIEL CALLAHAN Introduction MEREDITH MINKLER.
... context of the ethos and politics of a nation . By arguing for a communitarian perspective , they show that efforts to improve the health of the public must be deeply rooted in a view of human nature and human societies . Barbara Koenig ...
... be less than wholly successful unless they can be complemented by a fuller examination of their place in our national values and institutions . Personal Responsibility for Health : Contexts and Controversies When lifelong Introduction xi.
How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility? Daniel Callahan. Personal Responsibility for Health : Contexts and Controversies When lifelong smoker Jean Connor died of lung cancer in 1995 at age forty - nine , her ... Contexts and Controversies.
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HELEN HALPIN SCHAUFFLER | 37 |
E HAAVI MORREIM | 56 |
ANN ROBERTSON | 76 |
RONALD LABONTE | 95 |
Finding | 137 |
MEREDITH MINKLER | 153 |
Contributors | 171 |