Action, Ability and Health - Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)

This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness. This enterprise has expanded dramatically during the last decades. A great number of articles, as weIl as a fair number of monographs, on this topic have been published by renowned international publishers. In this discussion most participants share the idea that health is a partially normative concept, Le. that health is not a phe nomenon which can be wholly characterised in biological (or otherwise descriptive) terms. To ascribe health to a person is eo ipso, according to this line of thought, to as cribe a positively evaluated property to this person. Moreover, most debators share the idea that health is a holistic property, belonging to the person as a whole, whereas dis eases, injuries and defects are entities (or properties of entities) which can be very lim ited and and normally affect only a part of the individual. My own monograph belongs to this tradition. A feature of my position, which is not universally acknowledged in riyal theories, however, is my emphasis on the notion of ability as a fundament in the theory of health. In my formal characterisation of health I view it as astate of a person which is such that the person has the ability to fulfi1 his or her vital goals."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 1
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2000
Authors:	L. y. Nordenfelt
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	173
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-5412-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN:	90-481-5412-X
Barcode:	9789048154128

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