Person, society, and value: towards a personalist concept of health
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Dordrecht; Boston
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Kluwer Academic Pub.
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c2002
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x, 259 p.; 23 cm
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Philosophy and medicine
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v. 72
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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edited by Paulina Taboada, Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback, and Patricia Donohue-White
ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE
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Machine generated contents note: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii -- ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE / Preface ix --KATERYNA FEDORYKA CUDDEBACK AND PAULINA TABOADA / -- Introduction 1 SECTION ONE / HEALTH AND THE HUMAN PERSON --GIOVANNI REALE / According to Plato, the Evils of the Body Cannot -- be Cured Without Also Curing the Evils of the Soul 91 -- PAULINA TABOADA / The General Systems Theory: An Adequate -- Framework for a Personalist Concept of Health? 33 -- PASCAL IDE / Health: Two Idolatries 55 -- ARMANDO ROA / The Concept of Mental Health 78 -- JOSEF SEIFERT / What is Human Health? Towards Understanding its -- Personalist Dimensions 901 SECTION TWO / HEALTH AND HUMAN WELL-BEING --H. TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT, JR. / Health, Disease and Persons: -- Well-being in a Post-Moder World 741 -- PATRICIA DONOHUE-WHITE AND KATERYNA FEDORYKA CUDDEBACK / -- The Good of Health: An Argument for an Objectivist Understanding 561 -- MANUEL LAVADOS / Empirical and Philosophical Aspects of a -- Definition of Health and Disease 781 -- SECTION THREE / HEALTH AND SOCIETY --PIET VAN SPUK / Positive and Negative Aspects of the WHO -- Definition of Health, and their Implications for a New Concept of -- Health in the Future 902 -- ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE AND MANUELA PASQUINI / The Challenge of -- Government in the Constructing of Health Care Policy 922 --JOSEF SEIFERT AND PAULINA TABOADA / Epilogue 142 --NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 352 -- INDEX 552