Morality and HealthAllan M. Brandt, Paul Rozin Psychology Press, 1997 - 416 pages 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. |
Contents
Health and Morality in Early Modern England | 15 |
Continuity and Change in the Moral | 35 |
Behavior Disease and Health in the TwentiethCentury | 53 |
The Social Context of Health and Disease and Choices | 79 |
Moral Transformations of Health and Suffering | 101 |
The Big Three of Morality Autonomy Community | 119 |
Sugar and Morality | 173 |
Warren Belasco | 185 |
DrinkingDriving | 201 |
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