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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11635565.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Daniel Callahan. -- Personal responsibility for health : context and controversies / Meredith Minkler. -- Health promotion and civil liberties : the price of freedoms and the price of health / Beverly Ovrebo. -- The credibility of claims for the economic benefits of health promotion / Helen Halpin Schauffler. -- Sticks and carrots and baseball bats : economic and other incentives to modify health behavior / E. Haavi Morreim. -- Health promotion and the common good : reflections on the politics of need / Ann Robertson. -- Health promotion and the common good : toward a politics of practice / Ronald Labonte. -- The promise of molecular medicine in preventing disease : examining the burden of genetic risk / Barbara Koenig and Alan Stockdale. -- Freedom, healthism, and health promotion : finding the right balance / Daniel Callahan. -- Promoting health and preventing disease : ethical demands and social challenges / Daniel Callahan, Barbara Koenig, and Meredith Minkler.".
- catalog extent "xi, 186 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0878407626 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Hastings Center studies in ethics".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press,".
- catalog subject "2000 D-821".
- catalog subject "613 21".
- catalog subject "Health Behavior.".
- catalog subject "Health Promotion methods.".
- catalog subject "Health promotion Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "Health promotion Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Public Health legislation & jurisprudence.".
- catalog subject "RA427.8 .P766 2000".
- catalog subject "Social Responsibility.".
- catalog subject "Social Values.".
- catalog subject "WA 540.1 P965 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Daniel Callahan. -- Personal responsibility for health : context and controversies / Meredith Minkler. -- Health promotion and civil liberties : the price of freedoms and the price of health / Beverly Ovrebo. -- The credibility of claims for the economic benefits of health promotion / Helen Halpin Schauffler. -- Sticks and carrots and baseball bats : economic and other incentives to modify health behavior / E. Haavi Morreim. -- Health promotion and the common good : reflections on the politics of need / Ann Robertson. -- Health promotion and the common good : toward a politics of practice / Ronald Labonte. -- The promise of molecular medicine in preventing disease : examining the burden of genetic risk / Barbara Koenig and Alan Stockdale. -- Freedom, healthism, and health promotion : finding the right balance / Daniel Callahan. -- Promoting health and preventing disease : ethical demands and social challenges / Daniel Callahan, Barbara Koenig, and Meredith Minkler.".
- catalog title "Promoting healthy behavior : how much freedom? whose responsibility? / edited by Daniel Callahan.".
- catalog type "text".