Introduction: topic of study, method of study, focus of study -- Naturalism and the concept of health -- Normativism and the concept of health -- The function debate -- Boorse on health -- Boorse and his critics -- An evolutionary concept of health
Summary
One of the most controversial contemporary debates on the concept of health is the clash between the views of naturalists and normativists. This debate has fueled many of the, often very acrimonious, disputations arising from the claims of health, disease and disability activists and charities and the public policy responses to them
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index
