Person, society, and value : towards a personalist concept of health /

"Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both tr...

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Andere auteurs: Taboada, Paulina, Cuddeback, Kateryna Fedoryka, Donohue-White, Patricia
Formaat: Boek
Taal:English
Gepubliceerd in: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Pub., 2002.
Reeks:Philosophy and medicine ; v. 72.
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Table of contents
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Rocco Buttiglione: Preface
  • Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback and Paulina Taboada: Introduction
  • Section One. Health and the Human Person. Giovanni Reale: According to Plato, the Evils of the Body Cannot be Cured Without Also Curing the Evils of the Soul
  • Paulina Taboada: The General Systems Theory: An Adequate Framework for a Personalist Concept of Health?
  • Pascal Ide: Health: Two Idolatries
  • Armando Roa: The Concept of Mental Health
  • Josef Seifert: What is Human Health? Towards Understanding its Personalist Dimensions
  • Section Two. Health and Human Well-Being. H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.: Health, Disease and Persons: Well-being in a Post-Modern World
  • Patricia Donohue-White and Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback: The Good of Health: An Argument for an Objectivist Understanding
  • Manuel Lavados: Empirical and Philosophical Aspects of a Definition of Health and Disease
  • Section Three. Health and Society. Piet Van Spuk: Positive and Negative Aspects of the WHO Definition of Health, and their Implications for a New Concept of Health in the Future
  • Rocco Buttiglione and Manuela Pasquini: The Challenge of Government in the Constructing of Health Care Policy
  • Josef Seifert and Paulina Taboada: Epilogue.