Overview
- Uniquely combines perspectives from scientists and philosophers of medicine/science on the subject of health
- Includes a wide range of topics and highly interdisciplinary contributions to help readers gain as thorough understanding of health due to
- Addresses the critical challenge of an integrative theory of health by starting from cutting-edge scientific theories and philosophical methods
Part of the book series: Healthy Ageing and Longevity (HAL, volume 12)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Health Concepts Across Disciplines
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Health Across Systems
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About this book
This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health.
Going beyond simple views of health as the absence of disease or as complete well-being, this book unites scientists and philosophers. The contributions clarify the links between health and adaptation, robustness, resilience, or dynamic homeostasis, and discuss how to achieve health and healthy aging through practices such as hormesis.
The book is divided into three parts and a conclusion: the first part explains health from within specific disciplines, the second part explores health from the perspective of a bodily part, system, function, or even the environment in which organisms live, and the final part looks at more clinical or practical perspectives. It thereby gathers, across 30 chapters, diverse perspectives from the broad fields of evolutionary and systems biology, immunology, and biogerontology, more specific areas such as odontology, cardiology, neurology, andpublic health, as well as philosophical reflections on mental health, sexuality, authenticity and medical theories.
The overarching aim is to inform, inspire and encourage intellectuals from various disciplines to assess whether explanations in these disparate fields and across biological levels can be sufficiently systematized and unified to clarify the complexity of health. It will be particularly useful for medical graduates, philosophy graduates and research professionals in the life sciences and general medicine, as well as for upper-level graduate philosophy of science students.
Reviews
“This book stands alone in the field in terms of a clinical/theoretical aging book. … Interest will come from those who want a larger, whole-picture view of aging.” (Wendy Boren, Doody's Book Reviews, November 6, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Explaining Health Across the Sciences
Editors: Jonathan Sholl, Suresh I.S. Rattan
Series Title: Healthy Ageing and Longevity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52663-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52662-7Published: 29 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52665-8Published: 29 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52663-4Published: 28 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2199-9007
Series E-ISSN: 2199-9015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 555
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedicine, general, Philosophy of Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general, Philosophy of Science