COMS 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Health Promotion, Self-Control
17 May 2016
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Health promotion & the pursuit of good health. Advertising, whether its actually good for your health or not. Maintenance of health became much more than just a treatment. Promotion of good health was more than an individual concern. Who"s 5 fundamental issues: ( posted on d2l) Not much difference for the lower economic class. They rely on social and other factors to affect their health instead. Health promotion only helps some people in terms of health ( the higher economic class) Conrad spoke about the ideal female body was to be thin. Self- control, body taming and other examples were forms of moral practice and virtuous. These are the codes people see as virtous and codes that they follow. Ethics- oriented morality: you become an ethical subject. A way of conducting yourself all the time to redeem yourself. Second was the more of subjection: being subject to someone else. The relationship that you have to this morality.
