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Person, Society and Value

Towards a Personalist Concept of Health

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Paulina Taboada

    1. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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  2. Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback

    1. Arlington, USA

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  3. Patricia Donohue-White

    1. Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 72)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback, Paulina Taboada
      Pages 1-15

  4. Health and Human Well-Being

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Health, Disease, and Persons: Well-Being in a Post-Modern World

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 147-163

    3. The Good of Health: An Argument for an Objectivist Understanding

      • Patricia Donohue-White, Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback
      Pages 165-185

    4. Empirical and Philosophical Aspects of a Definition of Health and Disease

      • Manuel Lavados
      Pages 187-206

  5. Health and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Positive and Negative Aspects of the Who Definition of Health, and Their Implications for a New Concept of Health in the Future

      • Piet Van Spijk
      Pages 209-227

    3. The Challenge of Government in the Constructing of Health Care Policy

      • Rocco Buttiglione, Manuela Pasquini
      Pages 229-239

    4. Epilogue

      • Josef Seifert, Paulina Taboada
      Pages 241-252

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 253-262
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Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.
The overall purpose of this book is to capture the essentials of human health and to propose the outlines for a personalist understanding of this concept, i.e., a conception that does justice to the personal nature of human beings by introducing dimensions that are essential to personal life and well-being, such as the realms of rationality, affectivity and freedom, the realms of meaning, values, morality, and spirituality, the realms of social and interpersonal relations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Paulina Taboada

  • Arlington, USA

    Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback

  • Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, USA

    Patricia Donohue-White

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