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Mainly, Boorse (1975, 1977) was engrossed in a practical and philosophical discussion of what health and disease may entail. He defined disease as a type of internal state which impairs health (i.e., reduces one or more functional ability below typical efficiency).
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22 wrz 2008 · Health and disease are critical concepts in bioethics with far-reaching social and political implications. For instance, any attempt to educate physicians or regulate heath insurance must employ some standards that can be used to assess whether people are ill or not.
According to this consensus view, a value-free science of health is impossible. This thesis I believe to be entirely mistaken. I shall argue in this essay that it rests on a confusion be- tween the theoretical and the practical senses of "health," or in other words, between disease and illness.
1 sty 2014 · This chapter proceeds to discuss the features of a disease and the specific realities of illness by showing the difference between the two concepts. Disease and illness categories (acute, chronic, accidents/injuries, and mental disease/illness) are discussed.
1 sty 2011 · This chapter presents the philosophical analysis of concepts of health and of its various defects — illness, disease, disorder, pathology, injury, and disability.
4 lis 2014 · Accounts of health and disease traditionally come in two varieties: naturalism and normativism. 1 Naturalists maintain that health and disease can be defined—at least in part—in value-free terms, whereas normativists maintain that health and disease are essentially value-laden concepts.
On illness, disease, and priority: a framework for more fruitful debates. Anke Bueter - 2019 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22 (3):463-474. Health of organisms and health of persons: An embedded instrumentalist approach.
