What Is Disease?
In What is Disease?, renowned philosophers and medical ethicists survey and elucidate the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, NJ
Humana
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
| Series: | Biomedical Ethics Reviews
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- A Rebuttal on Health
- Defining Disease: The Question of Sexual Orientation
- Malady
- Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Disease
- Defining Disease: Praxis Makes Perfect
- Disease: Definition and Objectivity
- Disease and Subjectivity
- The Concept of Disease in Alternative Medicine