Blar i forfatter Institutt for filosofi og førstesemesterstudier "Thompson, Christopher Jeremy"
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Rose’s Prevention Paradox
Thompson, Christopher Jeremy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2016-02-08)Geoffrey Rose's ‘prevention paradox’ occurs when a population‐based preventative health measure that brings large benefits to the community – such as compulsory seatbelts, a ‘fat tax’, or mass immunisation – offers little to each participating individual. Although the prevention paradox is not obviously a paradox in the sense in which philosophers understand the term, it does raise important normative ...