Promoting Healthy Behavior: How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility?

Book Overview

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 intriguing 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878408533
• ISBN13: 9780878408535
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher