| Description |
ix, 416 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Allan M. Brandt and Paul Rozin -- Health and Morality in Early Modern England / Keith Thomas -- Banishing Risk: Continuity and Change in the Moral Management of Disease / Charles Rosenberg -- Behavior, Disease, and Health in the Twentieth-Century United States: The Moral Valence of Individual Risk / Allan M. Brandt -- The Social Context of Health and Disease and Choices among Health Interventions / David Mechanic -- Moral Transformations of Health and Suffering in Chinese Society / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman -- The "Big Three" of Morality (Autonomy, Community, Divinity) and the "Big Three" Explanations of Suffering / Richard A. Shweder, Nancy C. Much and Manamohan Mahapatra [et al.] -- Sugar and Morality / Sidney Mintz -- Food, Morality, and Social Reform / Warren Belasco -- The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order / Joseph R. Gusfield -- Morality, Religion, and Drug Use / David T. Courtwright -- Teenage Pregnancy and Out-of-Wedlock Birth: Morals, Moralism, Experts / Linda Gordon -- Moralizing the Microbe: The Germ Theory and the Moral Construction of Behavior in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Antituberculosis Movement / Nancy Tomes -- Secular Morality / Solomon Katz -- The Legal Regulation of Smoking (and Smokers): Public Health or Secular Morality? / Lawrence Gostin -- Lifestyle Correctness and the New Secular Morality / Howard M. Leichter -- Moralization / Paul Rozin |
| Summary |
Morality and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives provides a compelling assessment of the powerful role moral systems play in addressing matters of health and disease. Encompassing a wide range of academic disciplines, the essays draw on the fields of psychology, medicine, history, sociology, political science, anthropology, sociology, and law. Contributors focus on the history of attitudes and values associated with diseases and disease-related behaviors, such as drinking, smoking, drug use, and diet, as well as the social, psychological and cultural perspectives of the ways morality shapes our understanding of who gets sick and why |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Health attitudes.
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Health behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Author |
Brandt, Allan M.
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Rozin, Paul, 1936-
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| LC no. |
96052813 |
| ISBN |
0415915813 (hb : alk. paper) |
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0415915821 (pb : alk. paper) |
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