Morality and Health - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0415915813 ISBN 13: 9780415915816

Verlag: Routledge, 1997

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"This collection is as timely as it is astute and penetrating. Crossing disciplinary boundaries with depth and grace, the authors chronicle the pervasive moralizing of illness and dysfunction in our times.." -Sue E. Estroff, Professor of Social Medicine, Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415915813
• ISBN 13: 9780415915816
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428
• Herausgeber: Brandt Allan M., Rozin Paul