ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a glimpse into the discussion of Christopher Boorse's account of normativism with respect to the concept of health. Specifically, weak and strong normativism, moral normativism, and functional normativism were explained along with Boorse's arguments for rejecting them. The chapter also provides a critical analysis of Boorse's attempt to meet challenge. It focuses on the concept of health includes only non-metrical norms and the concept of health includes both metrical norms and non-metrical norms. In contrast to the concept of illness, Boorse is insisting that "disease" is a value-free term in its theoretical sense. Boorse holds that health is a state of the body that can be understood through the theories of a value-free science of biology. Boorse's criticism is quite reasonable. Boorse argues that "disease" refers to the fact of the property of physiological dysfunction. Disease classification and determination, Boorse argues, is the business of the scientific community, not the community of public opinion.
