Conrad P
Department of Sociology, Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1994 Sep;18(3):385-401. doi: 10.1007/BF01379232.
The interest and participation in health promotion and wellness activities has expanded greatly in the past two decades. The "wellness revolution," especially in terms of diet and exercise, has been affected by both scientific findings and cultural changes. The paper examines how a particular aspect of culture, the moral meanings of health-promoting activities, contribute to the pursuit of wellness. Based on interviews with 54 self-identified wellness participants at a major university, we examine how health can be a moral discourse and the body a site for moral action. The paper suggests that wellness seekers engage in a profoundly moral discourse around health promotion, constructing a moral world of goods, bads and shoulds. Although there are some gender differences in particular wellness goals, engaging in wellness activities, independent of results, becomes seen as a good in itself. Thus, even apart from any health outcomes, the pursuit of virtue and a moral life is fundamentally an aspect of the pursuit of wellness.
在过去二十年里，人们对健康促进和健康活动的兴趣及参与度大幅提升。“健康革命”，尤其是在饮食和运动方面，受到了科学发现和文化变迁的双重影响。本文探讨文化的一个特定方面，即促进健康活动的道德意义，如何推动对健康的追求。基于对一所主要大学54名自称参与健康活动者的访谈，我们研究了健康如何成为一种道德话语，以及身体如何成为道德行动的场所。本文表明，追求健康者围绕健康促进展开了深刻的道德话语，构建了一个包含好坏与应然的道德世界。尽管在特定的健康目标上存在一些性别差异，但参与健康活动本身，无论结果如何，都被视为一件好事。因此，即使撇开任何健康结果不谈，追求美德和道德生活从根本上来说也是追求健康的一个方面。
