Health Problems Philosophical Puzzles about the Nature of Health

by Barnes, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780192883476
• ISBN10: 019288347X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192883810
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-10-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Elizabeth Barnes, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia

Elizabeth Barnes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. She works on social and feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics, and is especially interested in the areas where these topics overlap. Her book The Minority Body explores the connection between disability and wellbeing, and she's also written on indeterminacy, social construction, and gender.

Table of Contents

Forward
Introduction
1. Theories of Health
2. Health and Wellbeing
3. Health, Subjectivity, and Capability
4. Health and Disability
5. Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health
6. Ameliorative Skepticism, Shifting Standards, and the Measure of Health
Afterward
Bibliography