Health, illness and disease : philosophical essays / edited by Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Concepts of Health and Disease -- -- The opposition between naturalistic and holistic theories of health and disease / Lennart Nordenfelt -- Health and disease : social constructivism as a combination of naturalism and normativism / Elselijn Kingma -- Towards autonomy-with-illness : applying the triadic approach to the principles of bioethics / Antonio Casado da Rocha and Arantza Etxeberria -- The concept of "mental disorder" / Valérie Aucouturier and Steeves Demazeux -- -- Part II: The Experience of Illness -- -- What is phenomenology of medicine? Embodiment, illness and being-in-the-world / Fredrik Svenaeus -- Beyond the wounded storyteller : rethinking narrativity, illness and embodied self-experience / Angela Woods -- Transitions in health and illnes : realist and phenomenological accounts of adjustment to cancer / James Brennan -- Pain as illness / Elisa Arnaudo -- -- Part III: Illness and Society -- -- Intersex, medicine and pathologization / Melanie Newbould -- Stigmatizing depression : folk theorizing and "the Pollyanna Backlash" / Charlotte Blease -- Doing health : a constructivist approach to health theory / Britta Pelters -- Beauty and health as medical norms : the case of Nazi medicine / Sophia Efstathiou.