Health Problems

Philosophical Puzzles about the Nature of Health

Elizabeth Barnes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-288347-6 (ISBN)

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Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might approach difficult questions about social reality. After examining extant theories of health - and finding them lacking - the book explores some particularly intractable puzzles about the nature of health, places where we often feel pulled in multiple directions or have reason to say conflicting things. On the basis of these puzzles, the book then defends a stance called ameliorative skepticism. Although health is real, there is, on this view, no way of giving a coherent, explanatorily adequate answer to the question “what is health?” Yet adopting this skeptical stance can, it is argued, help us to better understand the role that health plays in our lives, and the work that we need a theory of health to do.

Elizabeth Barnes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. She works on social and feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics, and is especially interested in the areas where these topics overlap. Her book The Minority Body explores the connection between disability and wellbeing, and she's also written on indeterminacy, social construction, and gender.

Forward
Introduction
1: Theories of Health
2: Health and Wellbeing
3: Health, Subjectivity, and Capability
4: Health and Disability
5: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health
6: Ameliorative Skepticism, Shifting Standards, and the Measure of Health
Afterward
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	17.07.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 241 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-288347-X / 019288347X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-288347-6 / 9780192883476
Zustand	Neuware