Promoting Healthy Behavior: How Much Freedom? Whose Resposibility?: How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility? (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series)

by Daniel Callahan (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2001

  $58.25

  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.