Journal article
Golden opportunity, reasonable risk and personal responsibility for health
- Abstract:
- In her excellent and comprehensive article, Friesen argues that utilising personal responsibility in health care is problematic in several ways: (1) it is difficult to ascribe responsibility to behaviour; (2) there is a risk of prejudice and bias in deciding which behaviours a person should be held responsible for; (3) it may be ineffective at reducing health costs. In this short commentary, I will elaborate the critique of personal responsibility in health but suggest one way in which it could be used ethically. In doing so, I will introduce the concepts of reasonable risk and golden opportunity.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 608.8KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/medethics-2017-104428
Authors
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Journal:
- Journal of Medical Ethics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 44
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 59-61
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-4257
- ISSN:
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0306-6800
- Pubs id:
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pubs:725772
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uuid:fc59feda-88b0-43fe-a302-f3b514914c7e
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pubs:725772
- Source identifiers:
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725772
- Deposit date:
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2017-09-07
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Savulescu, J
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.
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