What Is Disease?

James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

361 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1997
Humana Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-61737-015-1 (ISBN)

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Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease. Their combined thoughts review and update an issue of central importance in bioethics today.

A Rebuttal on Health.- Defining Disease: The Question of Sexual Orientation.- Malady.- Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Disease.- Defining Disease: Praxis Makes Perfect.- Disease: Definition and Objectivity.- Disease and Subjectivity.- The Concept of Disease in Alternative Medicine.

"The centerpiece of this volume is an excellent discussion by C. Boorse, who responds to twenty years of criticism and defends his naturalist biostatistical theory of disease....The authors all make good use of contemporary examples of one or currently pathologized conditions, such as homosexuality and mental illness, to test their accounts of disease, thus making this book both conceptually rich and practically relevant for its readers."-Religious Studies Review

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Biomedical Ethics Reviews
Zusatzinfo	IX, 361 p.
Verlagsort	Totowa, NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	1-61737-015-0 / 1617370150
ISBN-13	978-1-61737-015-1 / 9781617370151
Zustand	Neuware