Promoting Healthy Behavior
Subtitle: How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility? (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780878407620
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Medical ethics; Public health & preventive medicine; Social aspects; Health/Fitness; Health Care Policy; Social Welfare Policies And Programs; Philosophy; Medical / Nursing; USA; Essays; Ethics; Health & Fitness; Health Care Issues; Health promotion; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: "The government, the media, HMOs, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually transmitted disease is rampant. Why? These essays examine the ethical and social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing Americans' unhealthy behavior." "The contributors raise profound questions about the role of the state or employers in trying to change health-related behavior, about the actual health and economic benefits of even trying, and about the freedom and responsibility of those of us who, as citizens, will be the target of such efforts."--Jacket.