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17The growing prevalence of obesity and related conditions such as Type II diabetes is held by many to be a major public health problem in developed countries, and increasingly in developing countries as well. If we wish to tackle this problem, it will be a major task. Individuals will have to change their consumption and exercise patterns, companies will have to improve the products they make and how they market them, nutrition experts and communities will have to redefine what is acceptable and …Read more
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16Smoking, health and ethicsPublic Health Ethics: Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice 85--99. forthcoming.
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12Is there a need for global health ethics? For and againstIn Solomon Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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48Population screeningPublic Health Ethics. Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice. forthcoming.
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26Shutting Up Infected Houses: Infectious Disease Control, Past and PresentPublic Health Ethics 3 (1): 1-3. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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19Preventing Transmission of HIV--A Special SymposiumPublic Health Ethics 3 (3): 191-192. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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33Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Offence, Harm and the Good LifePublic Health Ethics 3 (2): 89-90. 2010.
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17Transparency, accountability and vaccination policyJournal of Medical Ethics 35 (5): 274-275. 2009.
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193Solidarity: a Moral Concept in Need of Clarification (editorial)Public Health Ethics 5 (1): 1--5. 2012.
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95Health Promotion: Conceptual and Ethical IssuesPublic Health Ethics 5 (2): 101-103. 2012.There is a large literature exploring the concept of ‘health promotion’. However, the meaning of the term remains unclear and contested. This is for at least two reasons. First, any definition of ‘health promotion’ is going to have to outline and defend an account of the notoriously controversial concept of ‘health’, and then suggest how (and why) we should promote it. Second, health promotion clearly has some overlap with ‘public health’, but it is far from clear how they are related. Is health…Read more
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31Identity-based motivation and the paradox of the future self: Getting going requires thinking about time (later) in timeBehavioral and Brain Sciences 42. 2019.People can imagine their future selves without taking future-focused action. Identity-based motivation theory explains why. Hoerl & McCormack outline how. Present-focused action prevails because future “me” feels irrelevant to the choices facing current “me” unless future “me” is experienced as occurring now or as linked to current “me” via if-then simulations. This entails reasoning in time and about time.
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83Public Health and Legitimacy: Or Why There is Still a Place for Substantive Work in EthicsPublic Health Ethics 7 (2): 95-97. 2014.
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22Curing Psychopathy: Just Activate the Amygdala?American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 7 (3): 164-166. 2016.
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112Book Review: The Dialogical Turn: New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age (review)Thesis Eleven 81 (1): 119-124. 2005.
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42In defence of moral imperialism: four equal and universal prima facie principlesJournal of Medical Ethics 32 (4): 200-204. 2006.Raanan Gillon is a noted defender of the four principles approach to healthcare ethics. His general position has always been that these principles are to be considered to be both universal and prima facie in nature. In recent work, however, he has made two claims that seem to present difficulties for this view. His first claim is that one of these four principles, respect for autonomy, has a special position in relation to the others: he holds that it is first among equals. We argue that this cl…Read more
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31Mass public health programmes and the obligations of sponsoring and participating organisationsJournal of Medical Ethics 32 (10): 580-583. 2006.The obligations of organisations associated with policy formation and implementation of international mass public health programmes are explored. Lines of responsibility are considered to become unclear because of the large number of agencies associated with such programmes. A separation of the relevant obligations among the bodies responsible for the formulation and those responsible for the implementation of the policies is suggested. The continuing oral polio vaccine campaign against poliomye…Read more
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62Medical studies with 'no material ethical issues' - an unhelpful, confusing and potentially unethical suggestionClinical Ethics 1 (4): 234-236. 2006.Both the recent 'Warner' review of the UK research ethics committee (REC) system and the subsequent consultation document produced by the Central Office for Research Ethics Committees (COREC) emphasize the need to distinguish 'research' from what might be termed 'non-research'. This is to be determined through a process of filtering or 'triage', the intention being that RECs will avoid considering proposals with 'no material ethical issues'. In this paper we argue that trying to distinguish 'tru…Read more
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25The Ad Hoc Advisory Group's proposals for research ethics committees: a mixture of the timid, the revolutionary, and the bizarreJournal of Medical Ethics 31 (8): 435-436. 2005.The Report of the Ad Hoc Adivisory Group on the Operation of NHS Research Ethics Committees has resulted in a strange mixture of the timid, the revolutionary, and the bizarre.The Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on the Operation of NHS Research Ethics Committees is a curious document.1 The remit of the review was focused on the workings and effectiveness of NHS research ethics committees and the multicentre committees ). The Group was primarily set up in response to a series of complaints fro…Read more
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33Contesting the science/ethics distinction in the review of clinical researchJournal of Medical Ethics 33 (3): 165-167. 2007.Recent policy in relation to clinical research proposals in the UK has distinguished between two types of review: scientific and ethical. This distinction has been formally enshrined in the recent changes to research ethics committee structure and operating procedures, introduced as the UK response to the EU Directive on clinical trials. Recent reviews and recommendations have confirmed the place of the distinction and the separate review processes. However, serious reservations can be mounted a…Read more