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Understanding the dynamics of health : a systematic person-centered approach / Patrick Daly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daly, Patrick (Research associate), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health--Philosophy.
- Health.
- Health--Psychological aspects.
- Health--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Understanding the Dynamics of Health develops a comprehensive framework for understanding health and its impairments, drawing on the work of Bernard Lonergan. By integrating perspectives from common sense, theory, practice, and finitude, this book examines health as a multidimensional phenomenon shaped by organic, psychological, cognitive, and social-historical factors. Providing a systematic and critical foundation for uniting diverse health-related disciplines, from network biology and neuroscience to narrative medicine, bioethics, and public health philosophy, this book’s holistic framework not only emphasizes the lived experience of the whole person but also establishes a methodological approach for integrating the ever-expanding fields of health science and healthcare. This book is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and students in medicine, healthcare, and philosophy, as well as anyone seeking a deeper, more integrated understanding of health in today’s complex world"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Health as experienced
- Making sense of health as experienced
- Health and normativity
- Multilevel dynamics of function, dysfunction, and risk
- Disordered subjectivity
- Theoretical summation
- Praxis and interiority
- Clinical health : caring for each other
- Social health : caring to cooperate
- Cultural health : caring about meaning
- Aging, death, and immortality
- Hope and healing in the drama of existence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed December 19, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Daly, Patrick (Research associate) Understanding the dynamics of health.
- ISBN:
- 9781487570927
- 1487570929
- 9781487570934
- 1487570937
- 9781487570941
- 1487570945
- OCLC:
- 1524097937
- Access Restriction:
- Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access
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