Promoting Healthy Behavior - How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility?

Klappentext The government, the media, 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? This title examines the ethical and social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing Americans' unhealthy behavior. Zusammenfassung The government! the media! 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? This title examines the ethical and social problems that create subtle obstacles to changing Americans' unhealthy behavior.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Callahan, Daniel (EDT) Callahan
• Assisted by: Daniel Callahan (Editor), Callahan Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2001
• EAN: 9780878408535
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-853-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Hastings Center Studies in Eth; Hastings Center Studies in Eth; Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Public Health, Personal & public health, United States of America, USA, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Personal and public health / health education