Atheism Plus What? Social Justice and Lifestyle Politics Among Edmonton Atheists
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Lifestyle, responsibility and justice.
Received 7 September 2006 Revised 30 November 2006 Accepted 6 December 2006 Unhealthy lifestyle contributes significantly to the burden of disease. Scarce medical resources that could alternatively be spent on interventions to prevent or cure sufferings for which no one is to blame, are spent on prevention or treatment of (the risk of) disease that could be avoided through individual lifestyle ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Sociology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1710-1123,0318-6431
DOI: 10.29173/cjs27297