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Action, Ability and Health: Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare
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Action, Ability and Health: Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare Hardcover - 2000 - 2000th Edition

by L. y. Nordenfelt


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This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness. This enterprise has expanded dramatically during the last decades. A great number of articles, as weIl as a fair number of monographs, on this topic have been published by renowned international publishers. In this discussion most participants share the idea that health is a partially normative concept, Le. that health is not a phe- nomenon which can be wholly characterised in biological (or otherwise descriptive) terms. To ascribe health to a person is eo ipso, according to this line of thought, to as- cribe a positively evaluated property to this person. Moreover, most debators share the idea that health is a holistic property, belonging to the person as a whole, whereas dis- eases, injuries and defects are entities (or properties of entities) which can be very lim- ited and and normally affect only a part of the individual. My own monograph belongs to this tradition. A feature of my position, which is not universally acknowledged in riyal theories, however, is my emphasis on the notion of ability as a fundament in the theory of health. In my formal characterisation of health I view it as astate of a person which is such that the person has the ability to fulfi1 his or her vital goals.

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In our endeavour to describe the course of the world a natural conceptual apparatus has emerged.

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  • Title Action, Ability and Health: Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare
  • Author L. y. Nordenfelt
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 2000th
  • Edition 2000
  • Pages 173
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Springer
  • Date 2000-02-29
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • ISBN 9780792362067 / 0792362063
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Medical ethics, Act (Philosophy)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00024916
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.101
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