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Action, Ability and Health: Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare
Contributor(s): Nordenfelt, L. y. (Author)

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 ISBN: 904815412X     ISBN-13: 9789048154128
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE: $104.49  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Philosophy | Movements - Humanism
- Medical | Public Health
Dewey: 362.101
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.61 lbs) 173 pages
Features: Bibliography, Glossary
 
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Publisher Description:
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.
 
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