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How Can We (and Why Should We) Analyze the Ethics of Paternalistic Policies in Public Health? /

27 Feb 2018

In the view of certain authors, "public health is in The approach proposed in this document is essence paternalistic because it tends to use the rooted in a theoretical stance that fits broadly power of the State to intervene on behalf of the within the framework of political liberalism. [...] BECAUSE ONE SHOULD BE FREE TO DO AS ONE WISHES AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT HARM OTHERS One of the important functions of the harm principle It is generally accepted that it is legitimate for the is to protect minorities or marginalized groups state to interfere with the freedom of competent adult against the use of coercive state power to impose citizens to prevent them from harming others the values o [...] According to Thomas and Buckmaster, this period on carriers of a highly contagious and deadly type of paternalism has often "sought to control the virus or can ban smoking in some areas to limit the lifestyles of the poor" (2010, p. 1) and, one might exposure of others to secondary or even tertiary add, the lifestyles of those belonging to less- smoke. [...] The from the person whose well-being an intervention is general validity of these hypotheses has been called intended to improve or protect is perhaps the best into question in recent decades by evidence derived indication that the intervention in question from research on the social determinants of health presupposes a conception of well-being to which that and in the fields of psychology, behavi [...] This ladder arranges to imply that every citizen is born free, that any state interventions in order: at the bottom of the ladder are policy or intervention has the potential to interfere the options that interfere the least with negative with this freedom, and that no policy or intervention freedom, such as monitoring or informing activities, could be necessary or favourable to the exercise of an
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ISBN
9782550806479
Pages
26
Published in
Montreal, QC, CA

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