TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nordenfelt,Lennart
AU  - Liss,Per-Erik
TI  - Dimensions of health and health promotion
T2  - Value inquiry book series
SN  - 9042009241
AV  - RA427.8 .D55 2003
U1  - 613 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Health promotion
KW  - Health
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
ER  -