Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jeremy Bentham, Harm Reduction, World Health Organization
10 Apr 2018
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Balancing individual/communal rights its related to health and healthcare. Industrial revolution (1750-1900: mass migration to cities, cramped work areas with poor ventalation, trauma from machines, toxic exposure to heart metals, dust and solvents isolation and quarantine wouldn"t work communal and individual health. The enlightenment was a period that saw an embrace of democracy, citizenship, reason, rationality, and the social value of intelligence (the value of information gathering). These ideas provided important underpinnings for public health. Bentham and his disciples developed the philosophy of utilitarianism which provided a theoretic underpinning for health policy and wider social policies. bout thinking how we can coordination both individuals and communal health its of philosophy. Utilitarianism: greatest good for greatest amount of people. thought about majority not minority not about the smaller groups, what is wrong with this idea? those groups would die rights and individual rights were ignored.
