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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 pe...

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Main Author:	Taboada, Paulina
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Cuddeback, Kateryna Fedoryka, Donohue-White, Patricia
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Series:	Philosophy and medicine ; 72.
Subjects:	Philosophy (General) Genetic epistemology. Medicine > Philosophy. Medical ethics. Anthropology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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