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Health and Other Unassailable Values - Reconfigurations of Health, Evidence and Ethics (Paperback)
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Health and Other Unassailable Values - Reconfigurations of Health, Evidence and Ethics (Paperback)
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Health and Other Unassailable Values sets out to examine health as
a core cultural value. Taking 'health', 'evidence' and 'ethics' as
her primary themes, Bell explores the edifice that underpins
contemporary conceptions of health and the transformations in how
we understand it, assess it and enact it. Although health, evidence
and ethics have always been important values, she demonstrates that
the grounds upon which they are grasped today are radically
different from how they were formulated in the past. Divided into
three parts, Part I focuses on the rise of epidemiology, Part II
examines the emergence of evidence-based medicine, and Part III
explores the broader ethical turn in health and medicine. Through
an examination of core concepts including health behaviour, the
randomised controlled trial, informed consent and human rights,
Bell illustrates the ways in which certain entrenched ideas and
assumptions about how human beings think and act recur across a
variety of settings. An array of topical case studies, including
cigarette packaging legislation, the incorporation of male
circumcision as an HIV prevention tool, cancer screening
technologies and e-cigarettes, ground the arguments presented.
Written in a clear and engaging style, this volume will be of
interest to a wide range of scholars and students, especially those
in medical anthropology, medical sociology and public health. Clear
chapter delineations make the work easy to engage with at the
individual chapter level as well as a whole.
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