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      Boorse's Critique of Normative Concepts of Health
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      Boorse's Critique of Normative Concepts of Health

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      Boorse's Critique of Normative Concepts of Health book

      Boorse's Critique of Normative Concepts of Health

      DOI link for Boorse's Critique of Normative Concepts of Health

      Boorse's Critique of Normative Concepts of Health book

      ByMahesh Ananth
      BookIn Defense of an Evolutionary Concept of Health

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2008
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 18
      eBook ISBN 9781351155847
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      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.

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