ABSTRACT
The issue of how we should “pin down”, that is, define, specify, describe or model health and related concepts, such as illness and disease, has come to be seen as a central question in healthcare philosophy. Philosophy has developed many ways to analyse concepts, and in this handbook, for example, John Paley sets out four types of conceptual or concept analysis. In this chapter, Peter Allmark uses a combination of two: first, ordinary language philosophy and, second, what Paley terms conceptual analysis, or the method of cases. He begins, however, by discussing why it matters that we pin down health terms.
