Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health

Issues and Implications

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ‘biological function’, a concept of ‘reference class’ and the notion of ‘statistical normality’.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-05-27
Mått155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt365 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistory, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
Antal sidor229
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319804873

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Élodie Giroux is a philosopher of medicine who works mainly on issues about health concepts and epidemiology. Her main interests are history of risk factor epidemiology, philosophy of epidemiology, causation in medicine and public health, health and disease concepts. Besides several papers on history of modern epidemiology, she published Après Canguilhem, définir la santé et la maladie (2010), she edited a special issue on the history of risk factor epidemiology (in Revue d’Histoire des Sciences, 2011) and co-edited Philosophie de la médecine II (with Maël Lemoine, 2012) and Comprendre la vieillesse (with Sarah Carvallo, 2012).

Chapter 1: Introduction. Why a Book on Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health?; Élodie Giroux.- PART I: The Biostatistical Theory of Disease: Criticisms and Improvements.- Chapter 2: Is Boorse’s Biostatistical Theory of Health Naturalistic?; Maël Lemoine.- Chapter 3: In Search of Normal Functions: BST, Cummins Functions, and Hempel’s Problem; Marion Le Bidan.- Chapter 4: On Comparative Versus Non-comparative Theory of Health; Daniel Hausman.- Chapter 5: What a Naturalist Theory of Illness Should be; Thomas Schramme.- PART II: Health, Normativity and Naturalism.- Chapter 6: Contextualizing Medical Norms: Georges Canguilhem’s Surnaturalism; Jonathan Sholl.- Chapter 7: Organizational Malfunctions and the Notions of Health and Disease; Cristian Saborido.- Chapter 8: Biological Organization and Pathology: Three Views on the Normativity of Medicine; Arantza Etxeberria.- PART III: Implications for Healthcare.- Chapter 9: Goals of Medicine; Christopher Boorse.- Chapter 10: From ‘Better Than Well’ to ‘More Than Human’; Jean-Yves Goffi.- Chapter 11: Broadening and Balancing the Goals of Medicine: Battling Disease and Treating the Healthy; Peter Schwartz.- Chapter 12: A Defence of a Holistic Notion of Health; Lennart Nordenfelt.

“Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health is a comprehensive last word on the current debate between naturalistic and normative conceptions of health and disease. … it will serve well as an senior level undergraduate introduction to the Philosophy of Health or as a text in a special graduate studies course in this field. … It is well worth the read!” (Wendy C. Hamblet, metapsychology online reviews, metapsychology.mentalhelp.net, Vol. 20 (40), October, 2015)