Personal Responsibility and Lifestyle Diseases
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Personal Responsibility and Lifestyle Diseases. / Andersen, Martin Marchman; Nielsen, Morten Ebbe Juul.
In: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 41, No. 5, 2016, p. 480-499.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Personal Responsibility and Lifestyle Diseases
AU - Andersen, Martin Marchman
AU - Nielsen, Morten Ebbe Juul
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - What does it take for an individual to be personally responsible for behaviors that lead to increased risk of disease? We examine three approaches to responsibility that cover the most important aspects of the discussion of responsibility and spell out what it takes, according to each of them, to be responsible for behaviors leading to increased risk of disease. We show that only what we call the causal approach can adequately accommodate widely shared intuitions to the effect that certain causal influences—such as genetic make-up or certain social circumstances—diminish, or undermine personal responsibility. However, accepting the causal approach most likely makes personal responsibility impossible. We therefore need either to reject these widely shared intuitions about what counts as responsibility-softening or undermining or to accept that personal responsibility for behaviors leading to increased risk of disease rests on premises so shaky that personal responsibility is probably impossible.
AB - What does it take for an individual to be personally responsible for behaviors that lead to increased risk of disease? We examine three approaches to responsibility that cover the most important aspects of the discussion of responsibility and spell out what it takes, according to each of them, to be responsible for behaviors leading to increased risk of disease. We show that only what we call the causal approach can adequately accommodate widely shared intuitions to the effect that certain causal influences—such as genetic make-up or certain social circumstances—diminish, or undermine personal responsibility. However, accepting the causal approach most likely makes personal responsibility impossible. We therefore need either to reject these widely shared intuitions about what counts as responsibility-softening or undermining or to accept that personal responsibility for behaviors leading to increased risk of disease rests on premises so shaky that personal responsibility is probably impossible.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - distributive justice
KW - health
KW - health care allocation
KW - lifestyle diseases
KW - luck egalitarianism
KW - responsibility
U2 - 10.1093/jmp/jhw015
DO - 10.1093/jmp/jhw015
M3 - Journal article
VL - 41
SP - 480
EP - 499
JO - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
JF - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
SN - 0360-5310
IS - 5
ER -
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