The new public health: nanny in a new hat?
It has been suggested that the new public health is but nannyism in a different guise and that its advocates are the equivalents of health fascists. It will be argued that a form of paternalism (or maternalism) has always been inherent in public health and that to treat illness as if it was wholly a personal possession is to abdicate the government's responsibility for ensuring a healthy environment.
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National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia.
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