Health, Illness and Disease : Philosophical Essays
Health, Illness and Disease : Philosophical Essays
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Author(s): Carel, Havi
ISBN No.: 9781844655434
Pages: 256
Year: 201211
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 213.93
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Status: Available (On Demand)

Introduction, Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper Part I: Concepts of health and disease 1. The opposition between naturalistic and holistic theories of health and disease, Lennart Nordenfelt 2. Health and disease: Social constructivism as a combination of naturalism and normativism, Elselijn Kingma 3. Towards autonomy-within-illness: Applying the triadic approach to the principles of bioethics, Antonio Casado da Rocha and Arantza Etxeberria Agiriano 4. The concept of 'mental disorder', Valerie Aucouturier and Steeves Demazeux Part II: The experience of illness 5. What is phenomenology of medicine? Embodiment, illness, and being-in-the-world, Fredrik Svenaeus 6. Beyond the wounded storyteller: Rethinking narrativity, illness and embodied self-experience, Angela Woods 7. Transitions in health and illness, James Brennan 8.


Pain as illness, Elisa Arnaudo Part III: Illness and society 9. Intersex, medicine and pathologisation, Melanie Newbould 10. Stigmatising depression: Folk theorising and 'the Pollyanna backlash', Charlotte Blease 11. Doing health: A constructivist approach to health theory, Britta Pelters 12. Beauty and health as medical norms: The case of Nazi medicine, Sophia Efstathiou.


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