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Lifestyle: Bioethics at a Critical Juncture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2010

IGNAAS DEVISCH  and
MYRIAM DEVEUGELE
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More than ever, the way we live our lives has become subject to our own decisionmaking. Our whole way of living, in particular what we do to our body, has become the expression of personal lifestyle choices. Because we can make changes to our body according to our own individual preferences, every aspect of our life begins to be seen as the result of individual and voluntary decisions. The comparison with advertising is pertinent here: we should no longer accept the way we are but can choose from a variety of options. Go to any supermarket and look around: innumerable products are promoted because of their healthy ingredients, whether to lower our cholesterol or heighten our natural resistance. And, of course, we buy what is on offer.

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Dissecting Bioethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 550 - 558
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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