Preventive Medicine and Morality

Skrabanek, Petr

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(86)92273-7

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“…Skrabanek argued that there was little or no evidence of any benefi t for most forms of screening, and, furthermore, that this 'anticipatory' medicine somehow managed to exempt itself from the ethical constraints that apply to traditional medicine. 6 He believed that the coercion of entire populations to lead 'healthy' lifestyles, and to screen them for disease was a catastrophic error.…”

Section: Healthismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Petr Skrabanek: The Abominable No-Man

O’Mahony

2019

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

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Petr Skrabanek (1940-94) was a Czech-born doctor, polemicist and literary scholar. He qualified in medicine in Ireland, and spent most of his career at the Medical School of Trinity College Dublin. He was an outspoken critic of modern medicine, particularly of what he called ‘coercive healthism'. Skrabanek's sceptical and iconoclastic ideas are more relevant today than ever. This essay aims to rekindle interest in his life and work.

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Section: Healthismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Petr Skrabanek: The Abominable No-Man

O’Mahony

2019

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

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“…Under the name of risk factor medicine this concept has long become a mainstream activity of our health care systems. Škrabanek has questioned this type of preventive medicine on many accounts [16].…”

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The Era of Enlightenment Ends with the Golden Calf

Berger

2002

Medizinische Klinik

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“…To what extent might people be deprived of a personal liberty, without compensation for losses which they may be incurring? It has been argued that "coercive" public health innovations may be penalising individuals for their pemna1 behaviours, to achieve limited or nonexistent health gains to those affected (Skrabanek, 1986). Several criteria need to be met for a regulatory measure to be acceptable.…”

Section: Ethical and Social Issuesmentioning

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Regulatory influences on health-related behaviours: The case of workplace smoking-bans

Owen

Borland

Hill

1991

Australian Psychologist

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Recent community-wide health-promotion campaigns in Australia d other industrialised countries have been concerned with reducing cardiovascular disease and cancer risk, and have focused on such behaviours as cigarette smoking. dietary choices, and exercising. Psychological research on the modification of health-related behaviours has largely been concerned with individual learning and behaviourchange processes, emphasising an implicit sequence of providing information. promoting motivation, and facilitating behaviour change. But governments and public-health activists are now also sponsoring regulatory innovations which directly influence health-related behaviours. Bans on cigarette smoking in enclosed public places to protect the health of nonsmokers are an example of such regulatory innova tions, and have recently been implemented in many public and private sector workplaces in Australia.We discuss the findings of studies which show that workplace smoking bans result in changes in the behaviour and attitudes of smokers, that levels of acceptance of these regulations increase following their implementation, and that attitude changes seem to follow changes in behaviour. We also consider some of the social and ethical issues which arise, and some of the more general implications for research on the relationships between regulatory innovations, behaviour change and attitude change in the preventive-health and environmental-protection areas.

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Preventive Medicine and Morality

Cited by 23 publications

References 4 publications

Petr Skrabanek: The Abominable No-Man

Petr Skrabanek: The Abominable No-Man

The Era of Enlightenment Ends with the Golden Calf

Regulatory influences on health-related behaviours: The case of workplace smoking-bans

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