Dimensions of Health and Health Promotion

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-0924-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 138, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 433 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nordenfelt, Lennart

Liss, Per-Erik

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Per-Erik Liss, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of Health and Society, Linköping University. He has a background in philosophy and re-ceived his doctoral degree at the Department of Health and Society in 1990. He has a particular interest in the field of setting priorities in health care; his main publication in this field is Health Care Need (1993).

Lennart Nordenfelt has been Professor of Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care at the Department of Health and Society, Linköping University, since 1987. He received his doctoral degree in theoretical philosophy at the Uni-versity of Uppsala in 1974 and was subsequently appointed a lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Stockholm. Nordenfelt has made contributions mainly to action theory, the theory of medicine, and the theory of health and welfare. His monographs include On the Nature of Health (1987 and 1995) and Action, Ability, and Health (2000).