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(2002) Person, society and value, Dordrecht, Springer.
The good of health
an argument for an objectivist understanding
Patricia Donohue-White, Kateryna Fedoryka
pp. 165-185
In contemporary analyses of the concept of health, it is generally undisputed that health in its primary meaning is a value concept1: health is a good and as such it motivates and regulates types of action. The good of health is further specified as a kind of well-being or as a necessary condition for well-being. The predominant understanding of good in general and well-being in particular is a subjectivist one (Nordenfelt, 1987, pp. 81–82), basing well-being variously in individual feelings of happiness or the satisfaction of desires (desire-satisfaction theory2).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_8
Full citation:
Donohue-White, P. , Fedoryka, K. (2002)., The good of health: an argument for an objectivist understanding, in P. Taboada, K. Fedoryka & P. Donohue-White (eds.), Person, society and value, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 165-185.
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