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The Moral Society

Moral Judgements and the Sick

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Abstract

‘Everywhere I go, I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making...’ James Anderton, chief constable of Greater Manchester, speaking last year about the spread of AIDS, assumed a clear causal link between AIDS and what he regarded as immoral behaviour.

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  • Aggleton, P. and Homans, H. (1987) Educating for AIDS (NHS Training Authority).

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  • Hart, N. (1985) The Sociology of Health and Medicine (Causeway Press).

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  • Kennedy, I. (1981) The Unmasking of Medicine (Allen & Unwin).

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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill

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McNeill, P. (1991). The Moral Society. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_3

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