Health Problems

Elizabeth Barnes

Health Problems
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 October 2023
Pages
304
ISBN
9780192883476

Health Problems

Elizabeth Barnes

Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might approach difficult questions about social reality. After examining extant theories of health - and finding them lacking - the book explores some particularly intractable puzzles about the nature of health, places where we often feel pulled in multiple directions or have reason to say conflicting things. On the basis of these puzzles, the book then defends a stance called ameliorative skepticism. Although health is real, there is, on this view, no way of giving a coherent, explanatorily adequate answer to the question

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