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What Is Disease?

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. James M. Humber

    1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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  2. Robert F. Almeder

    1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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Part of the book series: Biomedical Ethics Reviews (BER)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. A Rebuttal on Health

    • Christopher Boorse
    Pages 1-134

  3. Defining Disease

    • Michael Ruse
    Pages 135-171

  4. Malady

    • K. Danner Clouser, Charles M. Culver, Bernard Gert
    Pages 173-217

  5. Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Disease

    • George J. Agich
    Pages 219-246

  6. Defining Disease

    • John D. Banja
    Pages 247-268

  7. Disease

    • Frederik Kaufman
    Pages 269-286

  8. Disease and Subjectivity

    • Stan van Hooft
    Pages 287-323

  9. The Concept of Disease in Alternative Medicine

    • Mark B. Woodhouse
    Pages 325-355

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 357-361
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About this book

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. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease. Their combined thoughts review and update an issue of central importance in bioethics today.

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"The centerpiece of this volume is an excellent discussion by C. Boorse, who responds to twenty years of criticism and defends his naturalist biostatistical theory of disease....The authors all make good use of contemporary examples of one or currently pathologized conditions, such as homosexuality and mental illness, to test their accounts of disease, thus making this book both conceptually rich and practically relevant for its readers."-Religious Studies Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

    James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: What Is Disease?

  • Editors: James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

  • Series Title: Biomedical Ethics Reviews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-451-1

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-352-8Published: 06 May 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-015-1Published: 19 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-451-1Published: 06 May 1997

  • Series ISSN: 0742-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 361

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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