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Health as Complete Well-Being: The WHO Definition and Beyond

but that the holistic interpretation is more adept for political aims. ... generally for political and economic agendas. Criticism of the WHO Definition The health definition of the WHO has often been dismissed by philosophers of medicine and medical scientists (for an overview

Healthiness as a Virtue: The Healthism of mHealth and the Challenges to Public Health

grassroots democracy endorsed by thinkers such as David Graeber (2013) or the idea of democracy as reflexive cooperation that Honneth (1998) traces back to John Dewey’s (2016) work in political philosophy ... management of health-related risks have been increasingly delegated to individuals, shifting the responsibility away from various health and public health institutions. In the last 40 years, political and

Pharmaceutical Pollution from Human Use and the Polluter Pays Principle

Crossref Search ADS PubMed WorldCat   Caney , S. ( 2010 ). Climate Change and the Duties of the Advantaged . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy , 13 ... Caney . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy , 14 , 531 – 542 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS WorldCat   Larsson , D. G. J. and Flach , C.-F

Understanding Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Support During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in the United Kingdom

, 1989; Komter, 2005), as a ‘natural’ or even strategic characteristic of groups or societies (e.g. Hechter, 1987), a political ideal (Mason, 2000; Brunkhorst, 2005; Scholz, 2008; Wilde, 2013), or an ... social or political fabric (e.g. Sternø, 2005; Molm et al., 2007). Jürgen Habermas’ (1990: 244) description of solidarity as ‘the reverse side of justice’ captures the nature of solidarity as the ‘glue

How to Design Consent for Health Data Research? An Analysis of Arguments of Solidarity

; Schmale, 2017; Bude, 2019). Today it is prevalent in social theory in discussions of group identity, in political activism as a call for action, and has been employed in a number of different functions in ... holds much promise. First, it moves the concept away from debates around political solidarity closer to a general idea of duties of welfare. The idea that we have such duties certainly has merit, but it

Taking Risks to Protect Others—Pediatric Vaccination and Moral Responsibility

the agent’s values are affected by social relationships and by political and social context. The environment influences the development of moral agency, capacity, and autonomy. These relational (Held ... . Acknowledgements I would like to thank Udo Schüklenk for interesting discussions concerning the pandemic and vaccination during my visiting professorship at the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University. I

The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation: Don't Forget the Trade-Offs!

worldwide struggle in striking a fair balance between different ethical principles of vaccine allocation, in particular maximum benefit, reciprocity, social justice and equal respect. Any political decision ... political decision that implements these principles comes at a cost in terms of loss of lives and of loss of life years that could potentially have been prevented by a different vaccination strategy. This

Political Theory, Values and Public Health

This article offers some general criticisms of the idea that any political theory can legitimate public health interventions, and then some particular criticisms of Civic Republicanism as a political ... ? as a subset of a broader category of thought called ?political philosophy?. Moreover, in most of what follows, I will in fact be dealing only with a narrow band of ?political theory??the part whose

Being Healthy, Being Sick, Being Responsible: Attitudes towards Responsibility for Health in a Public Healthcare System

regression assessed the association between attitudes towards health responsibilities and individual lifestyle, political orientation and health condition. We found a moderate support for social responsibility ... responsibility across political views. Respondents reporting unhealthier eating habits, smokers and physically inactive were less supportive of health promotion policies (including information, health incentives

Can Voluntary Health Insurance for Non-reimbursed Expensive New Treatments Be Just?

to Inequality . University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy , available from: http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/12409 [accessed 9 October 2014 ]. Google Scholar Google Preview ... , K. and Wester , G. ( 2015 ). Relational Equality and Health . Social Philosophy and Policy , 31 , 204 – 229 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS WorldCat   Wolff , J

Solidarity and Responsibility in Health Care

 , 21 , 1 – 24 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS WorldCat   Cohen, G. (2011). On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice and Other Essays in Political Philosophy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton ... ). Solidarity: Obligations and Expressions . The Journal of Political Philosophy  , 23 , 128 – 145 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS WorldCat   Titmuss R. ( 1967 ). Welfare State and

Commercial mHealth Apps and Unjust Value Trade-offs: A Public Health Perspective

a feminist perspective. In Loh J. and Coeckelbergh M. (eds), Feminist Philosophy of Technology. Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen Der Technikphilosophie . Stuttgart : J.B. Metzler ... PubMed WorldCat   Kidd , I. J. and Carel , H. ( 2017 ). ‘ Epistemic Injustice and Illness’ . Journal of Applied Philosophy , 34 , 172 – 190 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS

COVID-19 Vaccination Passports: Are They a Threat to Equality?

about equity are frequently raised as a reason not to implement COVID passports (Dye and Mills, 2021; Osama et al., 2021). For example, in the UK, MPs from across the political spectrum as well as civil ... , 397 , 562 – 564 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS WorldCat   Fisher M. ( 2021 ). Vaccine Passports, Covid’s Next Political Flash Point . The New York Times , available

Is Well-being Measurable After All?

argue, warrant as much skepticism as Hausman professes. Introduction Dan Hausman’s Valuing Health is a landmark text in philosophy of health, philosophy of social science and political philosophy. Its ... All? 0 Anna Alexandrova , Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge In Valuing Health, Dan Hausman argues that well-being is not measurable, at least not in the way that

The Ethics of Selective Mandatory Vaccination for COVID-19

Analogy . Journal of Applied Philosophy , 37 , 446 – 466 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS PubMed WorldCat   Giubilini A. , Savulescu J. ( 2019 ). Vaccination, Risks, and ... Interventions to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic, available from: https://doi.org/10.25561/87096 [accessed 2 June 2021]. Mill J. S. ( 2011 ). Cambridge Library Collection – Philosophy on Liberty

Can Geographically Targeted Vaccinations Be Ethically Justified? The Case of Norway During the COVID-19 Pandemic

regions that had successfully controlled the spread of infection (Stenberg et al., 2021). Many individuals also considered GTV to be a political question: should the capital be prioritised rather than rural

Taking Responsibility for Responsibility

them. There are appropriate targets of responsibility ascription. They are the institutions—political, judicial and corporate—and individuals actually responsible for the distribution of responsibility ... significantly greater extent than others, and the extent to which some grow up in resource-poor environments is a result in very important part of political choices we have made, and the circumstance and

Adding Lithium to Drinking Water for Suicide Prevention—The Ethics

focuses on the potential for democratic consent. In a word, if those affected by the program are able to influence decision-making, e.g. through political processes, then consent may be obtained on a group ... help and individual prescription or therapy, their political standing to impose mass administration on others is likely to be undermined. And, as argued in the next section, subgroups that may benefit

Public Health Ethics and Liberalism

confine political liberalism to an essentially procedural form. ... Hallvard Lillehammer, Jules Holroyd, Marc Fry, the participants of the Workshop on ‘Political Philosophy and Public Health’ held at the Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2008, and the anonymous

Paternalistic Food and Beverage Policies: A Response to Conly

communicate freely and publish their ideas so that they can voice their opinions about public issues and make informed choices about public policies and political candidates (Gutmann and Thompson, 1998 ... . slander, libel), violating copyrights, committing fraud, distributing obscene materials and using children in pornography. The courts treat political speech differently from commercial speech, and allow