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  • Title: Making sense of medical paternalism.
    Author: Hanson R.
    Journal: Med Hypotheses; 2008; 70(5):910-3. PubMed ID: 17959323.
    Abstract:
    Why do we regulate the substances we can ingest, the advisors we can hear, and the products we can buy far more than similarly-important non-health choices? I review many possible arguments for such paternalistic policies, as well many possible holes in such arguments. I argue we should either be clearer about what justifies our paternalism, or we should back off and be less paternalistic.
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