A Practice-Oriented Review of Health Concepts.
Whereas theories on health generally argue in favor of one specific concept, we argue that, given the variety of health practices, we need different concepts of health. We thus approach health concepts as a Wittgensteinian family of thick concepts. By discussing five concepts of health offered by (p...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 381 - 402 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Aug2018
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