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Person, society, and value : towards a personalist concept of health / edited by Paulina Taboada, Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback, and Patricia Donohue-White.
Holman Biotech Commons R723 .P386 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Philosophy and medicine ; v. 72.
- Philosophy and medicine ; v. 72
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health--Philosophy.
- Health.
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Value.
- Social value.
- Philosophy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health.
- Social value.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 259 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Pub., 2002.
- Contents:
- According to Plato, the evils of the body cannot be cured without also curing the evils of the soul / Giovanni Reale
- General systems theory / Paulina Taboada
- Health / Pascal Ide
- Concept of mental health / Armando Roa
- What is human health? Toward understanding its personalist dimensions / Josef Seifert
- Health, disease and persons / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
- Good of health / Patricia Donohue-White and Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback
- Empirical and philosophical aspects of a definition of health and disease / Manuel Lavados
- Positive and negative aspects of the WHO definintion of health, and their implications for a new concept of health in the future / Piet Van Spuk
- Challenge of govenment in the construction of health care policy / Rocco Buttiglione and Manuela Pasquini.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1402005032
- OCLC:
- 49559057
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