Dignity and health / Nora Jacobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobson, Nora, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In these hard times of global financial peril and growing social inequality, injuries to dignity are pervasive. "Indignity has many faces, " one man told Nora Jacobson as she conducted interviews for this book. Its expressions range from rudeness, indifference, and condescension to objectification, discrimination, and exploitation. Yet dignity can also be promoted. Another man described it as "common respect, " suggesting dignity's ordinariness, and the ways we can create and share it through practices like courtesy, leveling, and contribution. Dignity and Health examines the processes and structures of dignity violation and promotion, traces their consequences for individual and collective health, and uses the model developed to imagine how we might reform our systems of health and social care. With its focus on the dignity experiences of those often excluded from the mainstream--people who are poor, or experiencing homelessness, or dealing with mental health problems--as well as on vulnerabilities like age or sickness or unemployment that threaten to make us all feel "less than, " Dignity and Health recognizes dignity as a moral matter embedded in the choices we make every day.

Contents:

The subtle grammar of dignity

Dignity violation : a universe of human suffering

The structures that deny dignity

An epidemiology of damage

Dignity promotion : the ordinary language of respect

The demands of dignity.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613767189

9780826502780

0826502784

9781280995576

1280995572

9780826518637

082651863X

OCLC:

805700488