The personal nature of health

Title: The personal nature of health
Creator: Sturmberg, Joachim P.
Relation: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice Vol. 15, Issue 4, p. 766-769
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01225.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2009
Description: "Every man has his particular way of being in good health" - Emanuel Kant. Emanuel Kant's description of health stands in stark contrast to accepted definitions of health. For example, the WHO defines ‘health’ as ‘a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. However, as people get on with day-to-day living, no one can achieve the goal of ‘complete physical, mental and social well-being’. It is odd to define ‘health’ as a negative state that puts it beyond the reach of everyone. This paper explores the idea of health being a personal state, health being the product of every man's particular way of making sense of his particular circumstances.
Subject: defining health; health; philosophy of medicine; semiotics
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/807992
Identifier: uon:7567
Identifier: ISSN:1356-1294
Language: eng
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