Health, science, and ordinary language
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Health, science, and ordinary language
(Value inquiry book series, v. 110)
Rodopi, 2001
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is a contribution to the current philosophical discussion on the nature of health and illness. It contains a comparative analysis and reevaluation of four influential contemporary theories in this field. These are the biostatistical theory of Christopher Boorse which represents the mainstream thinking in medicine, and three versions of a holistic and normative understanding of health and illness which are the theories of Lawrie Reznek, K. W. M. Fulford, and Lennart Nordenfelt. In this unusual volume of assessment, Nordenfelt critically reexamines his own theory, and George Khushf and K. W. M. Fulford contribute critical responses.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Zbigniew Szawarski. Author's Preface. Part One. Disease and Illness Revisited: Where Should Medical Theory Go?
One. Introduction
Two. The Biostatistical Theory of Disease: Christopher Boorse
Three. An Alternative Medical Paradigm of Disease: Lawrie Reznek
Four. Toward Reverse Theories of Health and Illness: K.W.M. Fulford and Lennart Nordenfelt
Five. Toward a Critical Assessment of the Reverse Theories of Health and Illness
Part Two. Two Commentaries by George Khushf and K.W.M. Fulford
One. What Is at Issue in the Debate about Concepts of Health and Disease? Framing the Problem of Demarcation for a Post-Positivist Era of Medicine. By George Khushf
Two. Philosophy into Practice: The Case for Ordinary-Language Philosophy. By K.W.M. Fulford
Afterword
References
About the Authors
Index
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