This seems to be my week for discussing ethical issues in food politics.
The September issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD), a professional journal published by the CDC, is devoted to papers on this topic.
I taught a graduate course a couple of years ago at NYU titled “Ethical issues in nutrition, food studies, and public health.” These papers, and the ones I referred to earlier this week, could be the basis for a course on their own.
You are wondering why childhood obesity interventions raise ethical issues?
This diagram, from the paper by Shiriki Kumanyika, is a good starting place. It asks: Should governments, health professionals, advocates, and others balance the protection of vulnerable populations against corporate imperatives and, if so, how?
Maybe next semester!
In the meantime, here are the papers along with thanks to CDC for taking this on.
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A91: Ethical Concerns Regarding Interventions to Prevent and Control Childhood Obesity |
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John Govea |
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A92: Protecting Children From Harmful Food Marketing: Options for Local Government to Make a Difference |
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Jennifer L. Harris, Samantha K. Graff |
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A93: Childhood Obesity: A Framework for Policy Approaches and Ethical Considerations |
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Rogan Kersh, Donna F. Stroup, Wendell C. Taylor |
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A94: Childhood Obesity: Issues of Weight Bias |
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Reginald L. Washington |
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A95: Children With Special Health Care Needs: Acknowledging the Dilemma of Difference in Policy Responses to Obesity |
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Paula M. Minihan, Aviva Must, Betsy Anderson, Barbara Popper, Beth Dworetzky |
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A96: Public Policy Versus Individual Rights in Childhood Obesity Interventions: Perspectives From the Arkansas Experience With Act 1220 of 2003 |
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Martha M. Phillips, Kevin Ryan, James M. Raczynski |
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A97: A Question of Competing Rights, Priorities, and Principles: A Postscript to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Symposium on the Ethics of Childhood Obesity Policy |
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Shiriki K. Kumanyika |
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A98: The Ethical Basis for Promoting Nutritional Health in Public Schools in the United States |
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Patricia B. Crawford, Wendi Gosliner, Harvey Kayman |
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A99: Ethical Family Interventions for Childhood Obesity |
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Mandy L. Perryman |
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A100: Public Policy Versus Individual Rights and Responsibility: An Economist’s Perspective |
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Frank J. Chaloupka |
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A101: State Requirements and Recommendations for School-Based Screenings for Body Mass Index or Body Composition, 2010 |
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Jennifer Linchey, Kristine A. Madsen |
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