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Boorse discussed seven major themes that are prominent in the discussion of what health or a disease entails. It is important here to examine the seven themes in line with the notion of disease and see how important or otherwise those themes could be in identifying a disease.
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There is no absolute consensus on the definitions of health,...
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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.
health are increasingly likely to be the focus of discussion. This growing preference for medicine over morals, which might be called the psychiatric turn, has an obvious appeal. In the paradigm health discipline, physiological medicine, judgments of health and disease are normally uncontroversial. The idea of reaching comparable cer-
1 kwi 2022 · This paper argues that the medical conception of health as absence of disease is a value-free theoretical notion. Its main elements are biological function and statistical normality, in contrast to various other ideas prominent in the literature on health.
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.
4 lis 2014 · This is why, for the purpose of this essay, I classify Wakefield (who defines disease as “harmful dysfunction”) with Boorse and the other naturalists; all share a commitment to function and dysfunction as naturalist components of the health and disease concept.
16 lis 2021 · Subsequently, we will explore the relation between a health or disease definition, its practical function, and the context it is deployed in—and discuss how this could be relevant in further research aimed at formulating context-specific definitions.
