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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brandt, Allan M.

Rozin, Paul, 1936-

Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health behavior--Moral and ethical aspects.

Health behavior.

Health attitudes.

Physical Description:

ix, 416 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1997.

Summary:

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 focus on the history of attitudes and values about particular disease-related behaviors such as drinking, smoking and diet, as well as social, psychological and cultural perspectives on the process by which morality shapes our understanding of who gets sick and why. Contributors include Keith Thomas, Charles Rosenberg, Richard Shweder, Arthur Kleinman, David Mechanic, Nancy Tomes and Linda Gordon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

0415915813

0415915821

OCLC:

36074587