| Description |
xv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Value inquiry book series ; 138 |
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Value inquiry book series ; 138
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| Contents |
Foreword / Ingmar Porn -- Pt. 1. Characterizations of Health and the Good Life -- 1. Health, Doctors, and the Good Life: A Footnote to Plato / Bo Petersson -- 2. Health as Metaphor and as Metonymy - An Exploration / Per Sundstrom -- 3. An Evolutionary Concept of Health: Health as Natural Function / Lennart Nordenfelt -- Pt. 2. Concepts and Measurements of Mental Health. The Context of Psychotherapeutic Treatment -- 4. Health, Psychopathology, and the Action of the "Talking Cures" / Einar Jakobsson -- 5. A Conceptual Approach to Measuring Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Treatment / Per-Anders Tengland -- Pt. 3. Health and Illness from a Phenomenological Point of View -- 6. Health as Receptivity: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Allostasis / Jennifer Bullington -- 7. A Phenomenological Analysis of the Concepts Handicap and Illness / Fredrik Svenaeus -- Pt. 4. Health and Health Promotion from the point of view of family medicine, medical genetics and the care of the elderly -- 8. Health and Dialogue-Based Medicine / Olle Hellstrom -- 9. Transgressive Technologies in Reproductive Medicine: Do They Call for a Revision of Notions of Health? / Kristin Zeiler -- 10. Old, Ill and Estranged: On the Needs of Persons Receiving Elderly Care / Bengt Richt -- Pt. 5. Constraints on Interventions: Scientific and Ethical Requirements -- 11. Allocation of Scarce Resources in Health Care: Values and Concepts / Per-Erik Liss -- 12. Quackery / Ingemar Nordin -- 13. Private Life: Sketching Entrances for Ethical Analysis / Nina Nikku |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Health.
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Health promotion.
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Health -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy, Medical.
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Health Promotion.
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Health.
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| Author |
Nordenfelt, Lennart, 1945-
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Liss, Per-Erik.
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| LC no. |
2004301792 |
| ISBN |
9042009241 paperback |
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