In Defense of an Evolutionary Concept of Health
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Actual Reproductive Success
Argument Number
Argument Reconstructions
Author_Mahesh Ananth
biological function theory
Boorse's Account
Boorse’s Account
Category=QD
Conscious Functions
Dialectical Objectivism
disability studies
Electric Shock Therapy
Epistemic Values
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Etiological Account
evolutionary basis of health concepts
Functional Language
Genuine Functions
Health Judgments
health normativism
Homeostatic Concept
Intercellular Fluid
Miller Brown
Normal Functional Ability
Organism Environment Relationship
Organism Homeostasis
philosophy of medicine
Propensity Interpretation
public health ethics
Sheriff's Badge
Sheriff’s Badge
species-typical functioning
Strong Normativism
Weak Normativism
Wright's Account
Wright's Analysis
Wright's Concept
Wright’s Account
Wright’s Analysis
Wright’s Concept
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- ISBN 9781138356085
- Weight: 100g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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One of the most controversial contemporary debates on the concept of health is the clash between the views of naturalists and normativists. Naturalists argue that, although health can be valued or disvalued, the concept of health is itself objective and value-free. In contrast, normativists argue that health is a contextual and value-laden concept, and that there is no possibility of a value-free understanding of health. 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, homeostasis, and species-design, is defensible without jettisoning norms in their entirety.
