Person, Society and Value: Towards a Personalist Concept of Health

Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational.

The overall purpose of this book is to capture the essentials of human health and to propose the outlines for a personalist understanding of this con...