Reconsidering the Moralization of Health: Practices Versus Concepts, and What We Can Learn from Evidence-based Research

This article aims to do two things. First, it argues that moralization of health occurs not only at the practical level of individual healthcare choices and health states, but also at the conceptual level of health itself. This is most evident in cases where the concept of health is presumed to poss...

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Main Author: Thomas, S. Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2019
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 215-224
Further subjects:B cultural values
B overrdingness
B medical values
B moralization of health
B conceptual moralization of health
B Responsibilization
B Evidence-Based Medicine
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