Health, illness, and disease : philosophical essays / edited by Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carel, Havi, editor.

Cooper, Rachel Valerie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Health, Illness & Disease

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms, or should considerations of its emotional impact dictate our treatment of it? Our understanding of health and illness had become increasingly more complex in the modern world, as we are able to use medicine not only to fight disease but to control other aspects of our bodies, whether mood, blood pressure, or cholesterol. This collection of essays foregrounds the concepts of health and illness and patient experience within the philosophy of medicine, reflecting on the relationship between the ill person and society. Mental illness is considered alongside physical disease, and the important ramifications of society's differentiation between the two are brought to light. Health, Illness and Disease is a significant contribution to shaping the parameters of the evolving field of philosophy of medicine and will be of interest to medical practitioners and policy-makers as well as philosophers of science and ethicists.

Contents:

Part I: Concepts of Health and Disease

The opposition between naturalistic and holistic theories of health and disease / Lennart Nordenfelt

Health and disease : social constructivism as a combination of naturalism and normativism / Elselijn Kingma

Towards autonomy-with-illness : applying the triadic approach to the principles of bioethics / Antonio Casado da Rocha and Arantza Etxeberria

The concept of "mental disorder" / Valérie Aucouturier and Steeves Demazeux

Part II: The Experience of Illness

What is phenomenology of medicine? Embodiment, illness and being-in-the-world / Fredrik Svenaeus

Beyond the wounded storyteller : rethinking narrativity, illness and embodied self-experience / Angela Woods

Transitions in health and illnes : realist and phenomenological accounts of adjustment to cancer / James Brennan

Pain as illness / Elisa Arnaudo

Part III: Illness and Society

Intersex, medicine and pathologization / Melanie Newbould

Stigmatizing depression : folk theorizing and "the Pollyanna Backlash" / Charlotte Blease

Doing health : a constructivist approach to health theory / Britta Pelters

Beauty and health as medical norms : the case of Nazi medicine / Sophia Efstathiou.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-54485-4

1-315-72908-3

1-317-54486-2

1-84465-544-X

9781315729084

OCLC:

890531451