Morality and health / edited by Allan M. Brandt and Paul Rozin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Health and Morality in Early Modern England -- Banishing Risk: Continuity and Change in the Moral Management of Disease -- Behavior, Disease, and Health in the Twentieth-Century United States: The Moral Valence of Individual Risk -- The Social Context of Health and Disease and Choices among Health Interventions -- Moral Transformations of Health and Suffering in Chinese Society -- The "Big Three" of Morality (Autonomy, Community, Divinity) and the "Big Three" Explanations of Suffering -- Sugar and Morality -- Food, Morality, and Social Reform -- The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order -- Morality, Religion, and Drug Use -- Teenage Pregnancy and Out-of-Wedlock Birth: Morals, Moralism, Experts -- Moralizing the Microbe: The Germ Theory and the Moral Construction of Behavior in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Antituberculosis Movement -- Secular Morality -- The Legal Regulation of Smoking (and Smokers): Public Health or Secular Morality? -- Lifestyle Correctness and the New Secular Morality -- Moralization -- Contributors -- Index.

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