Dignity and health [electronic resource] / Nora Jacobson.
2012
R724 .J33 2012eb
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Dignity and health [electronic resource] / Nora Jacobson.
Author
Jacobson, Nora, 1964-
ISBN
9780826518637 electronic book
9780826518613 hardcover : cover
9780826518620 paperback
9780826518613 hardcover : cover
9780826518620 paperback
Publication Details
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 223 p.)
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R724 .J33 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
174.2
Summary
In these hard times of global financial peril and growing social inequality, injuries to dignity are pervasive. "Indignity has many faces," one man told Nora Jacobson as she conducted interviews for this book. Its expressions range from rudeness, indifference, and condescension to objectification, discrimination, and exploitation. Yet dignity can also be promoted. Another man described it as "common respect," suggesting dignity's ordinariness, and the ways we can create and share it through practices like courtesy, leveling, and contribution. Dignity and Health examines the processes and structures of dignity violation and promotion, traces their consequences for individual and collective health, and uses the model developed to imagine how we might reform our systems of health and social care. With its focus on the dignity experiences of those often excluded from the mainstream--people who are poor, or homeless, or dealing with mental health problems--as well as on vulnerabilities like age or sickness or unemployment that threaten to make us all feel "less than," Dignity and Health recognizes dignity as a moral matter embedded in the choices we make every day.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: a conceptual, practical, and moral inquiry
Dignity violation: a universe of human suffering
The structures that deny dignity
An epidemiology of damage
Dignity promotion: the ordinary language of respect
The demands of dignity.
Dignity violation: a universe of human suffering
The structures that deny dignity
An epidemiology of damage
Dignity promotion: the ordinary language of respect
The demands of dignity.