Brandt / Rozin Morality and Health

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-02497-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

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 and Health 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brandt, Allan M.

Rozin, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Allan M. Brandt and Paul Rozin
PERSPECTIVES ON MORALITY AND HEALTH
Keith Thomas - Health and Morality in Early Modern England
Charles Rosenberg - Banishing Risk: Continuity and Change in the Moral Management of Disease
Allan M. Brandt - Behavior, Disease, and Health in the Twentieth-Century United States: The Moral Valence of Individual Risk
David Mechanic - The Social Context of Health and Disease and Choices
MORALITY AND CULTURE
Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman - Moral Transformations of Health and Suffering in Chinese Society
Richard A. Shweder, Nancy C. Much, Manamohan Mahapatra, and Lawrence Park - The "Big Three" of Morality (Autonomy, Community, Divinity) and the "Big Three" Explanations of Suffering
MORALITY AND BEHAVIOR IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Sidney Mintz - Sugar and Morality
Warren Belasco - Food, Morality, and Social Reform
Joseph R. Gusfield - Alcohol in America: The Entangled Frames of Health and Morality
David T. Courtwright - Morality, Religion and Drug Use
Linda Gordon - Teenage Pregnancy and Out-of-Wedlock Birth: Morals, Moralism, Experts
Nancy Tomes - Moralizing the Microbe: The Germ Theory and the Moral Construction of Behavior in the Late Nineteenth-Century Antituberculosis Movement
CONTEMOPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON MORALITY AND HEALTH
Solomon Katz - Secular Morality
Lawrence Gostin - The Legal Regulation of Smoking (and Smokers): Public Health or Secular Morality?
Howard M. Leichter - Lifestyle Correctness and the New Secular Morality
Paul Rozin - Moralization

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Rozin is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Allan Brandt is Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard University Medical School and the author of No Magic Bullet.