Morality and health / edited by Allan M. Brandt and Paul Rozin.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1997Description: ix, 416 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415915821
- 9780415915823
- 0415915813
- 9780415915816
- 306.461
- RA427.25. M67 1997
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306.461 LUP Medicine as culture : illness, disease and the body in Western societies / | 306.461 MAC Embodiment : clinical, critical and cultural perspectives / | 306.461 MAR The health gap : the challenge of an unequal world / | 306.461 MOR Morality and health / | 306.461 MOR Illness and culture in the postmodern age / | 306.461 NAR Narrative and the cultural construction of illness and healing / | 306.461 NET The sociology of health and illness / |
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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