Action, Ability and Health: Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare

by Lennart Nordenfelt

Book Overview

This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness. This enterprise has expanded dramatically during the last decades. A great number of articles, as weIl as a fair number of monographs, on this topic have been published by renowned international publishers. In this discussion most participants share the idea that health is a partially normative concept, Le. that health is not a phe- nomenon which can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792362063
• ISBN13: 9780792362067
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"