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Dignity and Health
Nora Jacobson
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Description for Dignity and Health
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JK; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
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, levelling, and contribution.
Dignity and Health examines the processes and structures of dignity violation and promotion, traces their ... Read more
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, levelling, and contribution.
Dignity and Health examines the processes and structures of dignity violation and promotion, traces their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826518620
SKU
V9780826518620
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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