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R M Hare

    Journal of Medical Ethics
    |December 1, 1986
    PubMed
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    Understanding health is crucial for medical ethics. This study explores if health is descriptive or evaluative, finding challenges with descriptive views and suggesting an evaluative approach for better insights.

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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Ethics
    • Philosophy of Medicine
    • Conceptual Analysis

    Background:

    • Practical medical ethics heavily relies on defining 'health'.
    • The conceptualization of health as purely descriptive versus partly evaluative remains a key debate.
    • Existing definitions face challenges when applied to complex cases.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analyze the concept of health in medical ethics.
    • To critically evaluate descriptive theories of health, particularly C. Boorse's view.
    • To propose and explore an evaluative framework for understanding health.

    Main Methods:

    • Conceptual analysis of the term 'health'.
    • Critical discussion of C. Boorse's descriptive model of health.
    • Application of an evaluative model to medical and non-medical deviancies.

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    Main Results:

    • Difficulties were identified in maintaining a purely descriptive account of health.
    • An evaluative perspective offers a more robust framework for understanding health.
    • This approach illuminates distinctions between physical and mental illness, and other non-illness conditions.

    Conclusions:

    • The concept of health in medical ethics is better understood as partly evaluative or normative.
    • An evaluative approach aids in clarifying the nature of illness, especially mental illness.
    • Distinguishing illness from other forms of deviance is facilitated by an evaluative concept of health.