Taking responsibility for health in an epistemically polluted environment.
Lifestyle-related factors are responsible for a huge burden of disease (Yoon et al. 2014). Many people have responded to this fact by urging regulation as a means of improving health. Such regulation might be imposed by government (say through laws governing serving sizes), or through the actions of...
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| स्वरूप: | Journal article |
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Springer
2018
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| सारांश: | Lifestyle-related factors are responsible for a huge burden of disease (Yoon et al. 2014). Many people have responded to this fact by urging regulation as a means of improving health. Such regulation might be imposed by government (say through laws governing serving sizes), or through the actions of corporations (say reducing sugar in their products). Opposing such measures are a group of individuals who believe that individuals should make healthy choices for themselves, without such handholding from paternalistic institutions. The motivations for opposition to paternalism are diverse, ranging from a libertarian opposition to interference in the sphere of individual choice in general through to worries about institutional overreach. They are unified (to the extent they are) by the conviction that people ought to take responsibility for their own health. |
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