A Second Rebuttal On Health

被引:167
作者
Boorse, Christopher [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA
来源
JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY | 2014年 / 39卷 / 06期
关键词
biostatistical theory; disease; disorder; dysfunction; health; pathology; philosophy of medicine; PARACETAMOL; DISEASE;
D O I
10.1093/jmp/jhu035
中图分类号
B82 [伦理学(道德学)];
学科分类号
摘要
This essay replies to critics since 1995 of my "biostatistical theory" (BST) of health. According to the BST, a pathological condition is a state of statistically species-subnormal biological part-functional ability, relative to sex and age. Theoretical health, the total absence of pathological conditions, is then a value-free scientific notion. Recent critics offer a mixture of old and new objections to this analysis. Some new ones relate to choice of reference class, situation-specificity of function, common diseases and healthy populations, improvements in population health, the practice of pathologists, "Cambridge changes" in health status, and comparative vs. absolute health concepts. I make no changes in doctrine, except to consider treating "normal aging" as pathological by taking young adults as the standard for all adults.
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