ABSTRACT
This chapter marks an attempt to understand my recent experience of these neurological problems. First it employs noted theories in the philosophy of health to explore my current status, healthy or unhealthy. My currently being without symptoms, and the uncertainty regarding the shape of the condition in the future, raises some interesting challenges for these theories. Having ascertained the limitations of such theories in encompassing my experience the paper moves to conceptions of well-being and suffering to better understand my condition and experience of it. Finally the paper also examines the manner in in which playing sport impacted on my experience of illness. It seeks to explain how playing football and taking up yoga have all contributed to relief from some of the psychological effects of such a condition. First I will examine my condition in the light of Boorse’s (1975; 1977) celebrated theory of health. Boorse offers a naturalistic theory of health. Health is defined independent of the values or goals of the individual.
