{"product_id":"dignity-and-health-nora-jacobson-9780826518613","title":"Dignity and Health","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDignity and Health\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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,\" \u003ci\u003eDignity and Health\u003c\/i\u003e recognizes dignity as a moral matter embedded in the choices we make every day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nora Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826518613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826518613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2012 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2013","brand":"Nora Jacobson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425091240191,"sku":"9780826518613","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af1f49da-f4bc-41f1-a25d-6af188738898.jpg?v=1761536953","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dignity-and-health-nora-jacobson-9780826518613","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}