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In defense of an evolutionary concept of health [electronic resource] : nature, norms, and human biology / Mahesh Ananth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ananth, Mahesh, 1969-
- Series:
- Ashgate studies in applied ethics.
- Ashgate studies in applied ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health--Philosophy.
- Health.
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Naturalism.
- Normativity (Ethics).
- Evolution (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the most controversial contemporary debates on the concept of health is the clash between the views of naturalists and normativists. This debate has fueled many of the, often very acrimonious, disputations arising from the claims of health, disease and disability activists and charities and the public policy responses to them. In responding to this debate, Ananth both surveys the existing literature, with special focus on the work of Christopher Boorse, and argues that a naturalistic concept of health, drawing on evolutionary considerations associated with biological function, homeostas
- Contents:
- Introduction: topic of study, method of study, focus of study
- Naturalism and the concept of health
- Normativism and the concept of health
- The function debate
- Boorse on health
- Boorse and his critics
- An evolutionary concept of health.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-351-15582-2
- 1-281-33227-5
- 9786611332273
- 0-7546-8721-X
- OCLC:
- 318533361
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