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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... Politics of Need 76 RONALD LABONTE Health Promotion and the Common Good : Toward a Politics of Practice 95 BARBARA KOENIG AND ALAN STOCKDALE The Promise of Molecular Medicine in Preventing Disease : Examining the Burden of Genetic Risk ...
... 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 and Alan Stockdale show ...
... political climate emphasizing self - help and individual control over health . It is a vision that sees individual behavior in large part as responsible for the health problems we face as a society . In the words of J.K. Iglehart ...
... political use and misuse of the language of individual responsibility to support programs and policies like this one may be devastating in their human costs and consequences . 66 Critics of an overemphasis on personal responsibility for ...
... Politics and Health Promotion in The United States and Great Britain ( Princeton , N.J .: Princeton University Press , 1991 ) ; Meredith Minkler , " Challenges for Health Promotion in the 1990s : Social Inequities , Empowerment ...
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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 |