.... It looks first at the problems confronting modern health policy, and at the reasoning behind the New Perspective's approach. It then explores whether and how the charge of paternalism applies to that approach, and just what such a charge implies. The article concludes with a discussion of the “liberal...

...Caroline Whitbeck James F. Childress, Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 250 pp., $24.95 Copyright © 1985 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1985 Books Review Essay Why the Attention to Paternalism...

... Adela J. Gondek Reviews Rolf Sartorius, ed., Paternalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 287 pp., $29.50 hardcover, $12.95 paperback Many issues in health policy involve the question of paternalism-of doing (or not doing) things for people that are seen as being...

..., but concludes that the critical issue involved the libertarian objection to government mandating more prudent personal behavior. The article concludes that while the British conservative tradition of “benign paternalism” allowed some conservatives in that country to accept restrictions on personal freedom...

... choice. Purchasers have subsidized inefficient insurance designs in order to exploit tax and regulatory loopholes and to retain an image of corporate paternalism. America's health care system suffers from the public abuse of private interests and the private abuse of the public interest. © 2003 by Duke...

... of behavioral economics may consider diving directly into chapters 7 and 8. Contained in these chapters are applications, both conceptual and empirical, of behavioral economics insights to public policy, and a distinction among nudges, shoves, and budges. Influenced by liberal paternalism and conceived...

..., and public accommodations. But, unlike other mi- norities, disabled persons face few opponents who are openly prepared to express intolerance toward them. Instead, aversion and animosity against people with disabilities are concealed by a thin veil of paternalism which may be even more...

... with paternal exposure to various occupational toxins. For in- stance, as the article points out, the exposure of males as well as females to lead has been epidemiologically associated with reproductive-related harms. Even before Oliver’s findings, in 1916, Constantin Paul, as early as 1860...

... as a scientific problem, a preventive strategy derived from that analysis inevitably requires a political philosophy, which, among other things, must help us decide what is the proper range of state paternalism on the one hand and individual liberty on the other. We can sense this in Rumsey’s proposal...

... away from physician beneficence and/or paternalism and toward patient autonomy, spurred on by medical consumerism, the erosion of trust in the medical profession, and the influence of the social sciences and humanities in documenting medical dilemmas, to name a few influences; he is among those...

... from the “normal” experiences of life as some of the factors involved in turning the post-World War I1 doctor into a stranger. Prior to the mid-twentieth century, “the element of trust was strong enough to legitimate medical paternalism” (p. 1 lo), but after the change, “physicians who were...

... interesting, though, is the critical observation underlying both books: it is not the pro-abortion side alone whose activists debate chiefly with an eye to their own personal status. University of Michigan Adela J. Gondek Reviews Rolf Sartorius, ed., Paternalism...

... System. 7th ed. Raymond Goldsteen and Karen Goldsteen. New York: Springer, 2013. 298 pp. $49.00 paper. Health Law and Biomedical Ethics Papa’s Baby: Paternity and Artificial Insemination. Browne C. Lewis. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $45.00 cloth. 468 Journal of Health...

..., or are misled into consuming exces- sively. Therefore the benefits of managed care must be imposed on peo- ple whether they like it or not. Many analysts may believe versions of this argument, but normal peo- ple would demand a high burden of proof for such paternalism. There would have to be clear...

... History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Weisser, M. 1985 . A Brotherhood of Memory:Jewish Landsmanshaftn in the New World . New York:Basic. Whaples, R., and D. Buffum. 1991 . Fraternalism,Paternalism, the Family, and the Market...

... from the political realm. This was the heyday of paternalism in psychiatry. In this context, paternalism refers to decisions made by psychiatrists or mental health policymakers for men- tally ill people without their consent, justifying their decisions in terms of the “best interests...

... schools. A very useful first section presents short essays on major ethical concepts, such as informed consent, paternalism, confidentiality, definition of death, rights, concept of a person. The second section is devoted to issues in the organization of practice-the physician-patient...

... medicine is changing the law. By Barbara Werth- mann. 268 pp. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1984 Paternalism. Edited by Rolf Sartonus. 287 pp. Minneapolis: University of Minne- sota Press, 1984. $29.50, hardcover; $12.95, paperback Books Newly...

... of paternalism in the health policy area. The contributions of philosophers to debates on public policy questions are to be welcomed. The Sartorius collection is a fine addition to that literature. Harvard University Steven Kelman Jeffrey Berry, Feeding Hungry People...

... . Maynard R. A. 1997 . “Paternalism, Teenage Pregnancy Prevention, and Teenage Parent Services.” In The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty , edited by Mead Lawrence M. , 89 – 129 . Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press . Meyers D. . 2008 . “USPSTF...