
- 432 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Morality and Health
About this book
From the castigation and stigmatization of victims of AIDS to our celebration of diet, exercise and fitness, the moral categorization of health and disease reflects contemporary notions that disease results from moral failure and that health is the representation of moral triumph. Ranging across academic disciplines and historical time periods, the essays in Morality andHealth offer a compelling assessment of the powerful role of moral systems for judging the complex questions of risk and responsibility for disease, the experience of illness, and social and cultural responses to those who are sick. Contributors include Keith Thomas, Charles Rosenberg, Richard Shweder, Arthur Kleinman, David Mechanic, Nancy Tomes and Linda Gordon.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Perspectives on Morality and Health
- Morality and Culture
- Morality and Behavior in Historical Context
- Contemporary Perspectives on Morality and Health
- Contributors
- Index
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