Is it possible to give naturalistic (e.g. biological) definitions of disease and health? Why is it important to think about what constitutes disease and health?
There is a maximum word limit of 1,000 words. This includes footnotes but notbibliography. One Required reading: concepts of health Additional reading: Boorse, Christopher (1977) Health as a theoretical concept Philosophy of Science 44: 54273. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/288768 Rachel Cooper (2002) Disease Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33: 263-282. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368102000183 Carel, Havi […]