In defense of an evolutionary concept of health
Subtitle: nature, norms, and human biology making natural and normative sense of the human body as a bundle of biological compromises
By: Mahesh Ananth.
Series: Ashgate studies in applied ethics
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754658528
Subjects: Health -- Philosophy; Medicine -- Philosophy; Naturalism; Normativity (Ethics); Evolution (Biology); Health; Philosophy, Medical; Ethical Theory; Evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: topic of study, method of study, focus of study; title: Naturalism and the concept of health; title: Normativism and the concept of health; title: The function debate; title: Boorse on health; title: Boorse and his critics; title: An evolutionary concept of health.