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In chapters 3–5 I have explored ethical dimensions of preventive medicine and health promotion practices. I have argued that principles of biomedical ethics have specific implications for this field. Furthermore, I have analysed two problems for preventive medicine which do not simply emanate from (conflicts between) these principles. First, there may be tensions between on the one hand the goals of preventive medicine which mainly concern public interests and goods, and on the other hand, the interests and rights of individual persons. Secondly, I have explicated moral intuitions concerning preventive medicine which are sometimes phrased in terms of ‘medicalization’.
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Verweij, M. (2000). Medicalization, Moral Obligations and Beyond. In: Preventive Medicine between Obligation and Aspiration. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9365-6_7
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