Promoting healthy behavior : how much freedom? whose responsibility? / edited by Daniel Callahan.

Other author Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxi, 186 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesHastings Center studies in ethics
Hastings Center studies in ethics. ^A374714
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99038856
ISBN0878407626 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks RA427.8 .P766 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold