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Exploring health and disease concepts in healthcare practice: an empirical philosophy of medicine study
In line with recent proposals for experimental philosophy and philosophy of science in practice, we propose that the philosophy of medicine could...
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Conceptions of Health and Disease in Plants and Animals
This chapter analyzes theoretical conceptions of health and disease for plants and animals. Compared to human health, the discussion of these...
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Health and disease as practical concepts: exploring function in context-specific definitions
Despite the longstanding debate on definitions of health and disease concepts, and the multitude of accounts that have been developed, no consensus...
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Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease
If one had to identify the biggest change within the philosophical tradition in the twenty-first century, it would certainly be the rapid rise of...
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Vulnerability, Wellbeing and Health
It can be said that the concept of vulnerability is crucial for the understanding of health and wellbeing. Wellbeing has been taken to be at the core...
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Health
For WHO, health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. However, it is...
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Global health, planetary health, One Health: conceptual and ethical challenges and concerns
The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically shown the level of interconnectedness of the human population, the direct relation between human health and...
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Climate Change, Global Health, and Planetary Health
Climate change has been called “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” This chapter outlines some central ethical dimensions of the...
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Climate Change, Global Health and Planetary Health
Climate change has been called “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” This chapter outlines some central ethical dimensions of the...
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Values in public health: an argument from trust
Research on the role of values in science and objectivity has typically approached trust through its epistemic aspects. Yet, recent work on public...
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Epistemic Health, Epistemic Immunity and Epistemic Inoculation
This paper introduces three new concepts: epistemic health, epistemic immunity, and epistemic inoculation. Epistemic health is a measure of how well...
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Applying Medical Knowledge: Diagnosing Disease
The term “diagnosis” can refer to the name of a disease that afflicts a person or to the process of determining a diagnosis in the first sense....
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What is mental health and disorder? Philosophical implications from lay judgments
How do people understand the concepts of mental health and disorder? The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of several factors on...
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Environmental Health (The Exposome)
The exposome concept was introduced by Christopher Wild, a molecular epidemiologist, in 2005. He defined it as the totality of life-course...
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Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging
Brain age prediction is a relatively new tool in neuro-medicine and the neurosciences. In research and clinical practice, it finds multiple use as a...
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Health Education
In view of the worldwide developments in the fields of medicine, new technologies and natural sciences during the last decades, “health” as one of...
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Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account
The definitions and conceptualizations of health, and the management of healthcare have been challenged by the current global scenarios (e.g., new...
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Identifying the Presence of Ethics Concepts in Chronic Pain Research: A Sco** Review of Neuroscience Journals
BackgroundChronic pain is a pervasive and invisible condition which affects people in a myriad of ways including but not limited to their quality of...
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What Are Health Disparities?
Many racial and ethnicBig data minority groupsMinority groups have poor health outcomes. These health disparitiesHealth disparities are driven by the...