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[Persecutory health].

Luis David Castiel1, Carlos Alvarez-Dardet

  • 1Departamento de Epidemiologia e Métodos Quantitativos em Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. luis.castiel@ensp.fiocruz.br

Revista De Saude Publica
|May 23, 2007
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This study critically examines health promotion, revealing how its focus on personal responsibility can lead to "persecutory health." It highlights societal issues within current health knowledge production and technology.

Area of Science:

  • Social Philosophy
  • Health Promotion Studies
  • Bioethics

Context:

  • Current health promotion discourses and practices.
  • Critique of knowledge and technology production in health.
  • Analysis of societal implications of health initiatives.

Purpose:

  • To critically analyze the production of health promotion knowledge and technologies.
  • To evaluate the capacity of health promotion to generate perplexities and dissatisfaction.
  • To discuss the limits of personal responsibility as a persuasion strategy.

Summary:

  • The study employs social philosophy, drawing on Ivan Illich, Peter Skrabanek, and Giorgio Agamben.
  • It critiques the concept of personal responsibility in health promotion, identifying it as a persuasive strategy.

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  • The analysis reveals that current health promotion approaches can result in "persecutory health" as an unintended consequence.

    • Impact:

    • Challenges conventional understandings of health promotion effectiveness.
    • Highlights the potential negative societal and philosophical consequences of health initiatives.
    • Provides a critical framework for re-evaluating health promotion strategies and their ethical underpinnings.