Health, Disease, and Illness

Arthur L. Caplan is Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics, and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. James J. McCartney is associate professor in the department of philosophy at Villanova University, an associate fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, and an adjunct professor at the Villanova University School of Law. Dominic A. Sisti is a researcher at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, associate ethicist at Holy Redeemer Health System, and adjunct instructor at Villanova University.

• Foreword: Renewing Medicine's Basic ConceptsEdmund D. Pellegrino Part I: Historical Discussions of Health, Disease, and Illness 1. From "On the Natural Faculties II, VIII"Galen 2. Diseases of the SoulMaimonides 3. Prometheus's Vulture: The Renaissance Fashioning of Gout Roy Porter and G.S. Rousseau 4. Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race Samuel A. Cartwright 5. The Normal and the Pathological-Introduction to the ProblemGeorges Canguilhem 6. The Myth of Mental Illness Thomas S. Szasz 7. The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for BiomedicineGeorge L. Engel 8. When Do Symptoms Become a Disease?Robert A. Aronowitz Part II: Characterizing Health, Disease, and Illness 9. On the Distinction between Disease and Illness Christopher Boorse 10. Malady: A New Treatment of Disease K. Danner Clouser, Charles M. Culver, and Bernard Gert 11. Health: A Comprehensive Concept Roberto Mordacci and Richard Sobel 12. The Distinction between Mental and Physical IllnessR. E. Kendell 13. The "Unnaturalness" of Aging-Give Me Reason to Live!Arthur L. Caplan 14. Diagnosing and Defining DiseaseWinston Chiong Part III: Clinical Applications of Concepts of Health and Disease: Controversies/Consensus 15. "Ambiguous Sex"-or Ambivalent Medicine?Alice Domurat Dreger 16. The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant BehaviorPeter Conrad 17. Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness: The Delegitimation of Illness Experience in Chronic Fatigue SyndromeNorma C. Ware 18. The Premenstrual Syndrome: A Brief HistoryJohn T. E. Richardson 19. The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" Of A Deficiency DiseaseFrances B. McCrea 20. Aging, Culture, and the Framing of Alzheimer DiseaseMartha Holstein Part IV: Normalcy, Genetic Disease, and Enhancement: The Future of the Concepts of Health and Disease21. The Medicalization of Aesthetic SurgerySander Gilman 22. The Quest for Medical Normalcy-Who Needs It?George C. Williams 23. The Concept of Genetic DiseaseDavid Magnus 24. Concepts of Disease after the Human Genome ProjectEric T. Juengst 25.From "Enhancing Cognition in the Intellectually Intact"Peter J. Whitehouse, Eric T. Juengst, Maxwell Mehlman, and Thomas H. Murray 26. Treatment, Enhancement, and The Ethics of NeurotherapeuticsPaul Root Wolpe 27. What's Morally Wrong with Eugenics?Arthur L. Caplan ContributorsIndex

"This welcome anthology, encompassing an admirably broad variety of perspectives, ancient and modern, on the fundamental categorical and moral questions embedded in definitions of human health and disorder, is sure to become an essential resource for all who think seriously about the theory and practice of medicine." - Margaret E. Mohrmann, University of Virginia"