Smoke Free? Public Health Policy, Coercive Paternalism, and the Ethics of Long‐Game Regulation

Coggon, John

doi:10.1111/jols.12213

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“…However, some authors disagree with such an approach and argue that nudges should be evaluated through a more dynamic lens (Binder, 2014; Coggon, 2020; Lepenies and Malecka, 2015). Binder and Lades criticize libertarian paternalism for its “mainly static out-look” because they argue the case for libertarian paternalism has “strong intuitive appeal when described as one-shot situations without any regard for inter-temporal dynamics” (Binder and Lades, 2015: 17).…”

Section: Ethical Issue: Long-term Adverse Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, if the government lacks support for introducing a ban on smoking and introducing a ban without support is considered illegitimate, then under the same rationale there is no justification for policies that will create support for such a ban. Nudges aimed at changing social norms that will eventually lead to support for a ban are therefore unjustified (Coggon, 2020). Coggon draws the conclusion that libertarian paternalism is “deficient on its own terms” for this reason, as it does not acquire democratic support legitimately (p 142).…”

Section: Ethical Issue: Democracy and Deliberationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nudge in perspective: A systematic literature review on the ethical issues with nudging

Kuyer

Gordijn

2023

Rationality and Society

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In this article, we systematically review the literature on the ethics of nudging. Since the publication of the book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in 2008, a rich literature has been developed on the question whether it is ethical to nudge people. This is an important area for research as nudges are commonly used by governments and private corporations to alter the behaviour of citizens and consumers. In order to gain a complete overview of this literature, we conduct a systematic search of academic sources. We investigate which ethical issues with nudging are discussed. We find four major ethical issues, namely worries regarding 1) autonomy, 2) welfare, 3) long-term adverse effects, and 4) democracy and deliberation. We discuss each ethical issue by highlighting how it is defined, what the critique constitutes, what its sub-issues are, and which defences of nudging have been argued for. In this way, the systematic literature review provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on the ethics of nudging to date. The results of our systematic review contribute to a better understanding of the ethical issues with nudging, as well as of the current state of the literature on these topics.

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Section: Ethical Issue: Long-term Adverse Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ethical Issue: Democracy and Deliberationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nudge in perspective: A systematic literature review on the ethical issues with nudging

Kuyer

Gordijn

2023

Rationality and Society

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“…2011, 30 ). While others have approached the ‘what to do’ list after Hanlon et al ’s call in terms of public health policy ( Hemingway 2012 ) ( Hemingway 2011 ) ( Coggon 2020 ), this paper enters the debate by responding to their call in the forms of a decolonial approach in the wake of colonial capitalism.…”

Section: Fifth-wave Public Health Theory the Coloniality Of Man And A...mentioning

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Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: an intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism

Jolly

2022

Med Humanities

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This paper brings together fifth-wave public health theory and a decolonised approach to the human informed by the Caribbean thinker, Sylvia Wynter, and the primary exponent of African Humanism, Es’kia Mpahlele. Sub-Saharan indigenous ways of thinking the human as co-constitutive in a subject we might call human-animal-‘environment’, in conjunction with the subcontinent’s experiences of colonial damage in disease ‘prevention’ and ‘treatment’, demonstrate the lack of genuine engagement with Indigenous wisdom in Western medical practice.The paper offers a decolonial reading of pandemic history, focused primarily on the human immunodefiency virus (HIV), the severe acute respiratory syndrome of 2003 caused by the SARS Covid 1 virus (SARS-CoV1) and COVID-19, caused by the SARS COVID 2 virus (SARS-CoV2) to demonstrate the importance of the co-constitutive subject in understanding the genesis of these pandemics as driven by colonial-capitalism. I emphasise that prevention will indeed take the kinds of massive changes proposed by fifth-wave public health theory. However, I differ from the proponents of that theory in an insistence that the new kind of thinking of the human Hanlon et al call for, has already been conceived: just not within the confines of the normative human of Western culture.I illustrate that Western Global Health approaches remain constitutionally ‘deaf’ to approaches that, although the West may not understand this to be the case, arise from fundamentally different—and extra-anthropocentric—notions of the human. In this context, Man as Wynter names Him is a subject ripe for decolonisation, rather than a premier site of capitalist development, including that of healthcare provision.Recognising that most of us are not individually able to change the structural violence of the colonial capitalist system in which Global Health practices are embedded, I conclude with implications drawn from my argument for quotidian practices that enable healthcare providers see their actions within a harm reduction paradigm, in the context of communities experiencing intergenerational impoverishment consequent on colonial violence.

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“…This again invites an analysis of ethical questions and consideration of the role of scientific evidence bases and social and political values beyond those found in a public health perspective. 21,22…”

Section: The Roles Of Social Actors and Agencies And Health As A Motmentioning

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‘Let them choose not to eat cake...’: Public health ethics, effectiveness and equity in government obesity strategy

Coggon

Adams

2021

Future Healthcare Journal

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With a focus on obesity strategy, this paper examines and explains questions of ethics and equity in public health policy. We identify and explain the dynamics at play in assigning individual and social/political responsibility for health, in the context of policies that rely heavily on the exercise of individual agency. The paper builds on an earlier scientific study by one of the authors, expanding the analysis through reference to public health ethics, and social ethics more broadly.

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Smoke Free? Public Health Policy, Coercive Paternalism, and the Ethics of Long‐Game Regulation

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Nudge in perspective: A systematic literature review on the ethical issues with nudging

Nudge in perspective: A systematic literature review on the ethical issues with nudging

Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: an intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism

‘Let them choose not to eat cake...’: Public health ethics, effectiveness and equity in government obesity strategy

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