Person, society, and value
Subtitle: towards a personalist concept of health
By: edited by Paulina Taboada, Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback, and Patricia Donohue-White.
Contributors: Taboada, Paulina.; Cuddeback, Kateryna Fedoryka.; Donohue-White, Patricia.
Series: Philosophy and medicine -- v. 72
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Health -- Philosophy.; Medicine -- Philosophy.; Value.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii; title: ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE / Preface ix; title: KATERYNA FEDORYKA CUDDEBACK AND PAULINA TABOADA /; title: Introduction 1 SECTION ONE / HEALTH AND THE HUMAN PERSON; title: GIOVANNI REALE / According to Plato, the Evils of the Body Cannot; title: be Cured Without Also Curing the Evils of the Soul 19; title: PAULINA TABOADA / The General Systems Theory: An Adequate; title: Framework for a Personalist Concept of Health? 33; title: PASCAL IDE / Health: Two Idolatries 55; title: ARMANDO ROA / The Concept of Mental Health 87; title: JOSEF SEIFERT / What is Human Health? Towards Understanding its; title: Personalist Dimensions 109 SECTION TWO / HEALTH AND HUMAN WELL-BEING; title: H. TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT, JR. / Health, Disease and Persons:; title: Well-being in a Post-Moder World 147; title: PATRICIA DONOHUE-WHITE AND KATERYNA FEDORYKA CUDDEBACK /; title: The Good of Health: An Argument for an Objectivist Understanding 165; title: MANUEL LAVADOS / Empirical and Philosophical Aspects of a; title: Definition of Health and Disease 187; title: SECTION THREE / HEALTH AND SOCIETY; title: PIET VAN SPUK / Positive and Negative Aspects of the WHO; title: Definition of Health, and their Implications for a New Concept of; title: Health in the Future 209; title: ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE AND MANUELA PASQUINI / The Challenge of; title: Government in the Constructing of Health Care Policy 229; title: JOSEF SEIFERT AND PAULINA TABOADA / Epilogue 241; title: NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 253; title: INDEX 255.