Author | Nordenfelt, Lennart. author |
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Title | On the Nature of Health [electronic resource] : An Action-Theoretic Approach / by Lennart Nordenfelt |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995 |
Edition | Second Revised and Enlarged Edition |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0241-4 |
Descript | XVII, 217 p. online resource |
1: Some Basic Issues in the Philosophy of Health -- 1. Why a Philosophy of Health? -- 2. What Should Be Required of an Acceptable Theory of Health? -- 3. Preliminaries on Conceptual Analysis -- 4. Two Perspectives on Health and Disease -- 2: An Analytic Theory of Health: the Biostatistical Theory (BST) -- 1. The Classical Background -- 2. On the Concept of a Goal -- 3. The Biostatistical Theory: A General Presentation -- 4. The Prima-Facie Merits of the Biostatistical Theory -- 5. A Critical Assessment of the Biostatistical Theory -- 3: Towards a Holistic Theory of Health -- 1. An Action-Theoretic Approach -- 2. On the General Concepts of Action and Ability -- 3. On Ability and Disability -- 4. On First- and Second-Order Ability -- 5. On the Concept of Vital Goals -- 6. Health as a Personโs Ability to Fulfill His Basic Human Needs -- 7. Health as a Personโs Ability to Attain the Goals Set by Himself -- 8. Towards a New Philosophy of Health: A Welfare Notion of Health -- 9. On Some Properties of the Welfare Notion of Health -- 4: On the Factors Which Compromise Health -- 1. Maladies -- 2. Other Factors Compromising Health: Old Age, Pregnancy, Grief -- 5: On Some Societal and Scientific Consequences of the Welfare Notion of Health -- 1. On the Relation Between Health and Society -- 2. On Some Consequences of the Welfare Notion of Health for Medicine and Health Care -- 6: Conclusions and Summary of the Welfare Theory of Health -- 1. Answers to the Requirements of a Good Theory of Health -- 2. Glossary -- Appendix: on the Ontology of Diseases -- 1. A Classical Debate โ Physiologism Versus Ontologism -- 2. The Problem of Historical Change -- 3. Towards a Reconstruction of Medical Ontology -- 4. Some Modern Definitions of Diseases -- 5. An Analysis of the Disease Concepts -- 6. Summary -- Notes -- Supplementary Bibliography -- Postscript 1994