| Action, Ability and Health: Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Nordenfelt, L. y. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0792362063 ISBN-13: 9780792362067 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: This book is a contribution to the general philosophy of action and the philosophy of welfare. The author makes separate analyses of concepts such as action, ability, interaction, action-explanation, happiness, health, illness and disability. At the same time he explores and substantiates the idea of a strong interdependence between the concept of action and some of the central concepts of welfare, in particular health and illness and related concepts. As a result he shows how the conceptual network of human welfare could be constructed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Medical | Ethics - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 362.101 |
| LCCN: 00024916 |
| Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 173 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness. This enterprise has expanded dramatically during the last decades. A great number of articles, as weIl as a fair number of monographs, on this topic have been published by renowned international publishers. In this discussion most participants share the idea that health is a partially normative concept, Le. that health is not a phe- nomenon which can be wholly characterised in biological (or otherwise descriptive) terms. To ascribe health to a person is eo ipso, according to this line of thought, to as- cribe a positively evaluated property to this person. Moreover, most debators share the idea that health is a holistic property, belonging to the person as a whole, whereas dis- eases, injuries and defects are entities (or properties of entities) which can be very lim- ited and and normally affect only a part of the individual. My own monograph belongs to this tradition. A feature of my position, which is not universally acknowledged in riyal theories, however, is my emphasis on the notion of ability as a fundament in the theory of health. In my formal characterisation of health I view it as astate of a person which is such that the person has the ability to fulfi1 his or her vital goals. |