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Health, illness, and disease, philosophical essays, edited by Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

non fiction

Health, illness, and disease

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795760646

edited by Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper

philosophical essays

What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms, or should considerations of its emotional impact dictate our treatment of it? Our understanding of health and illness had become increasingly more complex in the modern world, as we are able to use medicine not only to fight disease but to control other aspects of our bodies, whether mood, blood pressure, or cholesterol. This collection of essays foregrounds the concepts of health and illness and patient experience within the philosophy of medicine, reflecting on the relationship between the ill person and society. Mental illness is considered alongside physical disease, and the important ramifications of society's differentiation between the two are brought to light. Health, Illness and Disease is a significant contribution to shaping the parameters of the evolving field of philosophy of medicine and will be of interest to medical practitioners and policy-makers as well as philosophers of science and ethicists.--, Provided by Publisher

Part I: Concepts of Health and Disease -- -- The opposition between naturalistic and holistic theories of health and disease / Lennart Nordenfelt -- Health and disease : social constructivism as a combination of naturalism and normativism / Elselijn Kingma -- Towards autonomy-with-illness : applying the triadic approach to the principles of bioethics / Antonio Casado da Rocha and Arantza Etxeberria -- The concept of "mental disorder" / Valérie Aucouturier and Steeves Demazeux -- -- Part II: The Experience of Illness -- -- What is phenomenology of medicine? Embodiment, illness and being-in-the-world / Fredrik Svenaeus -- Beyond the wounded storyteller : rethinking narrativity, illness and embodied self-experience / Angela Woods -- Transitions in health and illnes : realist and phenomenological accounts of adjustment to cancer / James Brennan -- Pain as illness / Elisa Arnaudo -- -- Part III: Illness and Society -- -- Intersex, medicine and pathologization / Melanie Newbould -- Stigmatizing depression : folk theorizing and "the Pollyanna Backlash" / Charlotte Blease -- Doing health : a constructivist approach to health theory / Britta Pelters -- Beauty and health as medical norms : the case of Nazi medicine / Sophia Efstathiou

Health, illness & disease