ABSTRACT
There is a large literature on the nature of health, illness and disease in the philosophy of medicine, but these topics have generally not been explicitly addressed in feminist bioethics. Yet there are topics of interest to feminist bioethicists that involve these three concepts and the relationships among them. This chapter surveys the existing literature on health, illness and disease in the philosophy of medicine and makes connections with two areas of research in feminist bioethics, epistemic injustice and medicalization, to which these concepts and the relationships among them are central. It concludes by briefly sketching two ways in which a feminist lens might help to address shortcomings in the current philosophy of medicine literature.
