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Action, ability, and health : essays in the philosophy of action and welfare / by Lennart Nordenfelt.
- Title
- Action, ability, and health : essays in the philosophy of action and welfare / by Lennart Nordenfelt.
- Author
- Nordenfelt, Lennart.
- Publication
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000.
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- Description
- xvii, 173 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This book is a contribution to the general philosophy of action and the philosophy of welfare. The author makes separate analyses of concepts such as action, ability, interaction, action-explanation, happiness, health, illness and disability. At the same time he explores and substantiates the idea of a strong interdependence between the concept of action and some of the central concepts of welfare, in particular health and illness and related concepts. As a result he shows how the conceptual network of human welfare could be constructed."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 1
- Uniform Title
- International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine v. 1.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Collected Work
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I: Action Theory -- 1. Towards an ontology of episodes -- 2. Towards an analysis of the concept of action -- 3. On complex actions: accomplishments and projects -- 4. On the explanation and determination of actions -- 5. On the logical form of action-explanations -- 6. On the logical form of interaction -- 7. Towards a theory of ability and disability -- Part II: Action-Theory as a Basis for the Theories of Health and Welfare -- 8. On the notion of health as ability -- 9. On the concepts of vital goal and happiness -- 10. On the multiplicity of health concepts -- Part III: Action-Theoretic Applications in the Theory of Health and Health Care -- 11. On the technical notions of disability and handicap: the WHO context -- 12. On the complexity of autonomy -- 13. A sketch for a theory of health enhancement -- 14. On the role of compulsion in mental illness: The case of forensic psychiatry -- Part IV: Summary of Basic Concepts.
- ISBN
- 0792362063 (HB : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^00024916^
- OCLC
- 43445748
- SCSB-12813654
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library