Titlebook: Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health; Issues and Implicati Élodie Giroux Book 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Bio

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Organizational Malfunctions and the Notions of Health and Diseasedel for the philosophy of medicine. We try to ground the theoretical notion of biological normativity, interpreting it as an inherent feature of biological systems. We then develop a theoretical account of malfunctions, based on the adaptive mechanisms of living systems, which explains the ways in w

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Goals of Medicineoes our medical tradition bar physicians from treatments not aimed at fighting disease or improving health? The answer to the second question seems clear. As a matter of historical fact, not only are many such treatments accepted today, but some have been since the dawn of Western medicine. If our t

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Broadening and Balancing the Goals of Medicine: Battling Disease and Treating the Healthys strong arguments that healthcare providers may ethically treat individuals when there is no disease present or threatened. To encompass such actions, he offers an additional goal of medicine: “(IV) Using biomedical knowledge or technology in the best interests of the patient.” Boorse points out th

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A Defence of a Holistic Concept of Healthlth as having to do with the person as a whole. It is the person as a whole who is healthy or ill. Ill health is here taken to be the opposite of health. A distinctive feature of holistic health is that it is not identical with the absence of diseases or injuries. A concept of this general kind exis

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2211-1948 lysis of the implications of the philosophical theories of h.In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ‘biological function’, a concept of ‘reference class’ and the notion of ‘statistical normality

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In Search of Normal Functions: BST, Cummins Functions, and Hempel’s Problemis motivated by what we may call Hempel’s problem, that is, the necessity to make explicit the background of functional ascriptions in scientific contexts. We offer reasons to doubt that Boorse’s solution of Hempel’s problem coincides with standard medical thought and we suggest an alternative.

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