What Is Disease?

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106,99 €

Biomedical Ethics Reviews

ISBN: 089603352X
ISBN 13: 9780896033528
Herausgeber: James M Humber/Robert F Almeder
Verlag: Humana Press
Umfang: ix, 361 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.1997
Auflage: 1/1997
Format: 2.6 x 24.1 x 16.3
Gewicht: 749 g
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

In What is Disease?, renowned philosophers and medical ethicists survey and elucidate the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called „naturalism“ or „neutralism,“ Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease, including discussions of the relevance of these concepts to the question of „diseased“ sexual orientation and to alternative medicine. What is Disease? brings concerned readers up-to-date in the debate over the proper definition of „disease,“ a concept of central importance not only for bioethicists, but also for those throughout clinical medicine, sociology, psychology, and law who deal with disease and its associated problems on an everyday basis.

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Renowned philosophers and medical ethicists debate and discuss the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease. Their combined thoughts review and update an issue of central importance in bioethics today.

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