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6 kwi 2016 · But in other cases, illness can be a transformative experience, as philosopher L.A. Paul defines it. It can alter what we know and what we value in ways that are deeply life changing.
22 wrz 2008 · “Defining ‘Health’ and ‘Disease’,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, 40: 221–227. Fuller, J., 2018. “What Are Chronic Diseases?”
The philosophical illumination offered by the study of illness has been recently explored by Matthew Ratcliffe, who studied the experience of time in depression (2012b). Ratcliffe argues that there is strong evidence that the experience of time is affected in a number of ways in depression.
1 sty 2015 · The notorious World Health Organization definition of health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” has been roundly, and justifiably, criticized by philosophers more or less since it first appeared in 1948.
17 mar 2015 · Topics of study include connections between disability and chronic illness, the influence of social factors on public acceptance of illness and disability, and the phenomenology of illness, disease, and health.
21 lip 2017 · The biopsychosocial model outlined in Engel’s classic Science paper four decades ago emerged from dissatisfaction with the biomedical model of illness, which remains the dominant healthcare model.
It briefly surveys the philosophical role accorded to illness in the history of philosophy and explains why illness merits such a role. It suggests that illness modifies, and thus sheds light on, normal experience, revealing its ordinary and therefore overlooked structure.
