On the relevance of (the New) Phenomenology to an ethics of health promotions: toward a prudent balance of understanding and explanation
Abstract The field of health promotions faces considerable ethical and programmatic challenge – and we believe opportunity – in addressing the relative normativity of the concept(s) of health and its professional handling. To date, distinctions of objective and subjective indicants of “health” have...
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| author | Christina Röhrich Nikola B. Kohls Eckard Krüger James Giordano |
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| description | Abstract The field of health promotions faces considerable ethical and programmatic challenge – and we believe opportunity – in addressing the relative normativity of the concept(s) of health and its professional handling. To date, distinctions of objective and subjective indicants of “health” have fostered normative tension(s) within the utilitarian ethics of health promotions, which we opine to be anathema to the ultimate goal(s) of attaining and sustaining healthy individuals and societies. Objective and subjective metrics and values should be reconciled, as reciprocal and complementary on both idiosyncratic and systemic levels. In this light, we propose that a philosophical and ethical approach, based primarily upon Schmitz’s New Phenomenology and its specific understanding of subjectivity could afford epistemological bases for non-normative engagement of health promotion within a structural–functional framework of ethics. We dialectically address its potential benefit, limitations and value for health promotion and health care ethics and present an approach which points towards a more substantial encouragement of diversity through the legitimation of subjectivity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-83bdfcead90e4027b3cdd71817690f162023-07-16T11:24:25ZengBMCPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine1747-53412023-07-011811910.1186/s13010-023-00135-7On the relevance of (the New) Phenomenology to an ethics of health promotions: toward a prudent balance of understanding and explanationChristina Röhrich0Nikola B. Kohls1Eckard Krüger2James Giordano3Program in Integrative Health Promotions, Coburg University of Applied SciencesProgram in Integrative Health Promotions, Coburg University of Applied SciencesDepartment of Geriatric Medicine, Hospitals HochfrankenProgram in Integrative Health Promotions, Coburg University of Applied SciencesAbstract The field of health promotions faces considerable ethical and programmatic challenge – and we believe opportunity – in addressing the relative normativity of the concept(s) of health and its professional handling. To date, distinctions of objective and subjective indicants of “health” have fostered normative tension(s) within the utilitarian ethics of health promotions, which we opine to be anathema to the ultimate goal(s) of attaining and sustaining healthy individuals and societies. Objective and subjective metrics and values should be reconciled, as reciprocal and complementary on both idiosyncratic and systemic levels. In this light, we propose that a philosophical and ethical approach, based primarily upon Schmitz’s New Phenomenology and its specific understanding of subjectivity could afford epistemological bases for non-normative engagement of health promotion within a structural–functional framework of ethics. We dialectically address its potential benefit, limitations and value for health promotion and health care ethics and present an approach which points towards a more substantial encouragement of diversity through the legitimation of subjectivity.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-023-00135-7Health promotionEthicsNew PhenomenologySubjectivityObjectivity |
| spellingShingle | Christina Röhrich Nikola B. Kohls Eckard Krüger James Giordano On the relevance of (the New) Phenomenology to an ethics of health promotions: toward a prudent balance of understanding and explanation Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine Health promotion Ethics New Phenomenology Subjectivity Objectivity |
| title | On the relevance of (the New) Phenomenology to an ethics of health promotions: toward a prudent balance of understanding and explanation |
| title_full | On the relevance of (the New) Phenomenology to an ethics of health promotions: toward a prudent balance of understanding and explanation |
| title_fullStr | On the relevance of (the New) Phenomenology to an ethics of health promotions: toward a prudent balance of understanding and explanation |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the relevance of (the New) Phenomenology to an ethics of health promotions: toward a prudent balance of understanding and explanation |
| title_short | On the relevance of (the New) Phenomenology to an ethics of health promotions: toward a prudent balance of understanding and explanation |
| title_sort | on the relevance of the new phenomenology to an ethics of health promotions toward a prudent balance of understanding and explanation |
| topic | Health promotion Ethics New Phenomenology Subjectivity Objectivity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-023-00135-7 |
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