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Dimensions of health and health promotion / edited by Lennart Nordenfelt, Per-Erik Liss.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Value inquiry book series ; v. 138.Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003Description: xv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9042009241
  • 9789042009240
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613 22
LOC classification:
  • RA427.8 .D55 2003
Contents:
Foreword -- Editors' Preface -- Pt. 1. Characterizations of Health and the Good Life -- 1. Health, Doctors, and the Good Life: A Footnote to Plato -- 2. Health as Metaphor and as Metonymy - An Exploration -- 3. An Evolutionary Concept of Health: Health as Natural Function -- Pt. 2. Concepts and Measurements of Mental Health. The Context of Psychotherapeutic Treatment -- 4. Health, Psychopathology, and the Action of the "Talking Cures" -- 5. A Conceptual Approach to Measuring Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Treatment -- Pt. 3. Health and Illness from a Phenomenological Point of View -- 6. Health as Receptivity: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Allostasis -- 7. A Phenomenological Analysis of the Concepts Handicap and Illness -- Pt. 4. Health and Health Promotion from the point of view of family medicine, medical genetics and the care of the elderly -- 8. Health and Dialogue-Based Medicine -- 9. Transgressive Technologies in Reproductive Medicine: Do They Call for a Revision of Notions of Health? -- 10. Old, Ill and Estranged: On the Needs of Persons Receiving Elderly Care -- Pt. 5. Constraints on Interventions: Scientific and Ethical Requirements -- 11. Allocation of Scarce Resources in Health Care: Values and Concepts -- 12. Quackery -- 13. Private Life: Sketching Entrances for Ethical Analysis -- Works Cited -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Editors' Preface -- Pt. 1. Characterizations of Health and the Good Life -- 1. Health, Doctors, and the Good Life: A Footnote to Plato -- 2. Health as Metaphor and as Metonymy - An Exploration -- 3. An Evolutionary Concept of Health: Health as Natural Function -- Pt. 2. Concepts and Measurements of Mental Health. The Context of Psychotherapeutic Treatment -- 4. Health, Psychopathology, and the Action of the "Talking Cures" -- 5. A Conceptual Approach to Measuring Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Treatment -- Pt. 3. Health and Illness from a Phenomenological Point of View -- 6. Health as Receptivity: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Allostasis -- 7. A Phenomenological Analysis of the Concepts Handicap and Illness -- Pt. 4. Health and Health Promotion from the point of view of family medicine, medical genetics and the care of the elderly -- 8. Health and Dialogue-Based Medicine -- 9. Transgressive Technologies in Reproductive Medicine: Do They Call for a Revision of Notions of Health? -- 10. Old, Ill and Estranged: On the Needs of Persons Receiving Elderly Care -- Pt. 5. Constraints on Interventions: Scientific and Ethical Requirements -- 11. Allocation of Scarce Resources in Health Care: Values and Concepts -- 12. Quackery -- 13. Private Life: Sketching Entrances for Ethical Analysis -- Works Cited -- About the Contributors -- Index.

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