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Person, Society and Value: Towards a Personalist Concept of Health

By Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback , Paulina Taboada (auth.) , Paulina Taboada , Patricia Donohue-White (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2002
ISBN
978-90-481-5971-0, 978-94-017-2570-5
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4342610 bytes)
Series
Philosophy and Medicine 72
Edition
1
Pages
262\258
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Philosophy of Medicine; Theory of Medicine/Bioethi

Description

Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational. The overall purpose of this book is to capture the essentials of human health and to propose the outlines for a personalist understanding of this concept, i.e., a conception that does justice to the personal nature of human beings by introducing dimensions that are essential to personal life and well-being, such as the realms of rationality, affectivity and freedom, the realms of meaning, values, morality, and spirituality, the realms of social and interpersonal relations.

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