A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease

A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease

Medicine

This open access book is an integrated historical and philosophical investigation of several problematic situations that emerge from diverse areas of medical practice. These include (but are not limited to): Paying less attention to patients who are suffering with symptoms because no identifiable pathological lesion or pathophysiological process can be found. Paying too much attention to patients who are not suffering with symptoms because pathological lesions or pathophysiological processes have been found. The tendency to understand patients at risk of developing pathology as being diseased. The tendency to disregard the importance of wider societal consequences of definitions of disease and health. The book shows that many of these problems are related to what disease and health are considered to be and argues that these problems can be addressed by reconsidering the concepts of health and disease employed in practice.

Schermer, Maartje (editor), Binney, Nicholas (editor)

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Springer

2024

Baihaqi

Creative Commons

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English

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