Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

What Is Disease? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Titolo: What Is Disease? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Totowa, NJ : , : Humana Press : , : Imprint : Humana, , 1997
Edizione: 1st ed. 1997.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 361 p.)
Disciplina: 610.1
174.2
Soggetto topico: Medical ethics
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Persona (resp. second.): HumberJames M
AlmederRobert F
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: A Rebuttal on Health -- Defining Disease: The Question of Sexual Orientation -- Malady -- Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Disease -- Defining Disease: Praxis Makes Perfect -- Disease: Definition and Objectivity -- Disease and Subjectivity -- The Concept of Disease in Alternative Medicine.
Sommario/riassunto: In What is Disease?, renowned philosophers and medical ethicists survey and elucidate 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, including discussions of the relevance of these concepts to the question of "diseased" sexual orientation and to alternative medicine. What is Disease? brings concerned readers up-to-date in the debate over the proper definition of "disease," a concept of central importance not only for bioethicists, but also for those throughout clinical medicine, sociology, psychology, and law who deal with disease and its associated problems on an everyday basis.
Titolo autorizzato: What Is Disease  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61737-015-0
1-280-83613-X
9786610836130
1-59259-451-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910478944903321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Biomedical Ethics Reviews, . 0742-1796