Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might approach difficult questions about social reality.
Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might approach difficult questions about social reality.
Elizabeth Barnes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. She works on social and feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics, and is especially interested in the areas where these topics overlap. Her book The Minority Body explores the connection between disability and wellbeing, and she's also written on indeterminacy, social construction, and gender.
Inhaltsangabe
Forward Introduction 1: Theories of Health 2: Health and Wellbeing 3: Health, Subjectivity, and Capability 4: Health and Disability 5: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health 6: Ameliorative Skepticism, Shifting Standards, and the Measure of Health Afterward Bibliography
Forward Introduction 1: Theories of Health 2: Health and Wellbeing 3: Health, Subjectivity, and Capability 4: Health and Disability 5: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health 6: Ameliorative Skepticism, Shifting Standards, and the Measure of Health Afterward Bibliography
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