Rebuttal on health / Christopher Boorse --;Defining disease : the question of sexual orientation / Michael Ruse --;Malady / K. Danner Clouser, Charles M. Culver, and Bernard Gert --;Toward a pragmatic theory of disease / George J. Agich --;Defining disease : praxis makes perfect / John D. Banja --;Disease : definition and objectivity / Frederick Kaufman --;Disease and subjectivity / Stan van Hoof --;Concept of disease in alternative medicine / Mark B. Woodhouse.
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.