This program evaluation examined the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Reduction Program which aims to identify CVD risk factors and reduce these risk factors through health education phone counseling. High risk participants (those having two or more elevated lipid values) are identified from monthly voluntary CVD screenings and counseled. Phone counseling consists of...

The term "disease" is discussed with reference to the issues raised by Ian Kennedy in his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics and the definition proposed by Campbell, Scadding, and Roberts. Toon suggests a revised set of definitions based on a distinction between "diseasedness", the opposite of health, and the disease categories used in medicine to distinguish conditions needing specific tre...

This is a continuation of and a development of a debate between John Keown and me. The issue discussed is whether, in Britain, an unpaid system of blood donation promotes and is justified by its promotion of altruism. Doubt is cast on the notions that public policies can, and, if they can, that they should, be aimed at the promotion and expression of altruism rather than of self-interest, espec...