Health and disease play an important role in the history of medicine. Both terms are also crucial for the organization and functioning of medicine and a society at large. Nevertheless, although attempts to define health and disease have been made by physicians, philosophers, sociologists and psychologists, they have failed to succeed. Thus, the question arises whether semantic pluralism makes it possible to answer the question what health and disease are. The article aims at analysing the existing typologies of definitions of both the issues and supporting the argument that while many claim that the ongoing discussion on the meaning of both terms is purely academic, the concepts of health and disease are crucial for clinical practice and th...
The current WHO definition of health, formulated in 1948, describes health as “a state of complete p...
Abstract As it concerns both Man and the World, and it is interwoven with questions of order and bal...
Nikola Žáková The Biomedical Construction of "Health" Thesis Prague 2014 ABSTRACT This thesis focuse...
Health is a fundamental human right. The World Health Organization defines it as a “state of complet...
Health is a fundamental human right. The World Health Organization defines it as a "state of complet...
A problem of medicine is the epistemic uncertainties that are inherent to it, due to its both concep...
Aim. Definitions of health and disease play an important role in the organization and functioning of...
Stoecker R. Krankheit und Sinn – einige philosophische Unterscheidungen. Ethik in der Medizin. 2021;...
The article discusses methodological problems of philosophical reflection on the concept of disease ...
Disease and health are commonly thought of as distinct opposites. We propose a different view in whi...
Celem artykułu jest zbadanie obiektywności języka medycyny na przykładzie pojęcia choroby. Autor oma...
This article focuses on the evolution of perception and definition of health and illness and concurr...
Health, illness and disease are terms that appear to be used interchangeably amongst health professi...
The number of notions of health is not infinite. In the history of medicine we can only find a numbe...
ABSTRACT. It is argued that there is no agreed definition of disease. Purely biological definitions ...
The current WHO definition of health, formulated in 1948, describes health as “a state of complete p...
Abstract As it concerns both Man and the World, and it is interwoven with questions of order and bal...
Nikola Žáková The Biomedical Construction of "Health" Thesis Prague 2014 ABSTRACT This thesis focuse...
Health is a fundamental human right. The World Health Organization defines it as a “state of complet...
Health is a fundamental human right. The World Health Organization defines it as a "state of complet...
A problem of medicine is the epistemic uncertainties that are inherent to it, due to its both concep...
Aim. Definitions of health and disease play an important role in the organization and functioning of...
Stoecker R. Krankheit und Sinn – einige philosophische Unterscheidungen. Ethik in der Medizin. 2021;...
The article discusses methodological problems of philosophical reflection on the concept of disease ...
Disease and health are commonly thought of as distinct opposites. We propose a different view in whi...
Celem artykułu jest zbadanie obiektywności języka medycyny na przykładzie pojęcia choroby. Autor oma...
This article focuses on the evolution of perception and definition of health and illness and concurr...
Health, illness and disease are terms that appear to be used interchangeably amongst health professi...
The number of notions of health is not infinite. In the history of medicine we can only find a numbe...
ABSTRACT. It is argued that there is no agreed definition of disease. Purely biological definitions ...
The current WHO definition of health, formulated in 1948, describes health as “a state of complete p...
Abstract As it concerns both Man and the World, and it is interwoven with questions of order and bal...
Nikola Žáková The Biomedical Construction of "Health" Thesis Prague 2014 ABSTRACT This thesis focuse...