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

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 138
• TeilnehmendeR: Nordenfelt, Lennart, 1945-; Liss, Per-Erik,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 138.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book contains scholarly contributions to several current debates in the philosophy of medicine and health care regarding the nature of health and health promotion, concepts and measurements of mental illness, phenomenological conceptions of health and illness, allocation of health care resources, criteria for proper medical science, the clinical meeting, and ethical constraints in such a meeting. With one exception, the authors in this book are or have been teachers or graduate students at the interdisciplinary Department of Health and Society (Tema H) at Linköping University, Sweden. While all the texts have a philosophical focus, many other disciplines have influenced the choice of specific perspectives. The university backgrounds of the authors range from medicine, psychology, sociology, and religion to philosophy. What binds the authors together is their deep interest in the theory of medicine and in the pursuit of a philosophy of humanistic medicine and health care.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ingmar Pörn -- Editors' Preface -- Part One Characterizations of Health and the Good Life -- ONE Bo PETERSSON: Health, Doctors, and the Good Life: A Footnote to Plato -- TWO Per SUNDSTRÖM: Health as Metaphor and as Metonymy - An Exploration -- THREE Lennart NORDENFELT: An Evolutionary Concept of Health: Health as Natural Function -- Part Two Concepts and Measurements of Mental Health. The Context of Psychotherapeutic Treatment -- FOUR Einar JAKOBSSON: Health, Psychopathology, and the Action of the "Talking Cures" -- FIVE Per-Anders TENGLAND: A Conceptual Approach to Measuring Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Treatment -- Part Three Health and Illness from a Phenomenological Point of View -- SIX Jennifer BULLINGTON: Health as Receptivity: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Allostasis -- SEVEN Fredrik SVENAEUS: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Concepts Handicap and Illness -- Part Four Health and Health Promotion from the point of view of family medicine, medical genetics and the care of the elderly -- EIGHT Olle HELLSTRÖM: Health and Dialogue-Based Medicine -- NINE Kristin ZEILER: Transgressive Technologies in Reproductive Medicine: Do They Call for a Revision of Notions of Health? -- TEN Bengt RICHT: Old, Ill and Estranged: On the Needs of Persons Receiving Elderly Care -- Part Five Constraints on Interventions: Scientific and Ethical Requirements -- ELEVEN Per-Erik LISS: Allocation of Scarce Resources in Health Care: Values and Concepts -- TWELVE Ingemar NORDIN: Quackery -- THIRTEEN Nina NIKKU: Private Life: Sketching Entrances for Ethical Analysis -- Works Cited -- About the Contributors -- Index.