num_pages: 192
description: The government, the media, HMOs, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, excersize is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually transmitted disease is rampant. Why? These intriguing essays examine the ethical an social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing American's unhealthy behavior.
language: English
title: Promoting Healthy Behavior: How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility?
titlecomplete: Promoting Healthy Behavior: How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility?
ratings_count: 2
series: Hastings Center Studies in Ethics
publisher: Georgetown University Press