Person, Society and Value

Acknowledgements; P. Taboada. Preface; R. Buttiglione. Introduction; K.F. Cuddeback, P. Taboada. Section one: Health and the Human Person. According to Plato, the Evils of the Body Cannot be Cured Without also Curing the Evils of the Soul; G. Reale. The Systems Theory: an Adequate Framework for a Personalist Concept of Health? P. Taboada. Health: Between Gift, Task, and Opening; P. Ide. The Concept of Mental Health; A. Roa. What is Human Health? J. Seifert. Section two: Health and Human Well-being. Health, Disease and Persons: Well-being in a Post-Modern World; H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. The Good of Health: An Argument for an Objectivist Understanding; P. Donohue-White, K.F. Cuddeback. Empirical and Philosophical Aspects of a Definition of Heath; M. Lavados Section three: Health and Society. Postive and Negative Aspects of the WHO Definition of Health, and their Implications for a New Concept of Health in the Future; P. Van Spijk. The Challenge of Government in the Construction of Health Care Policy; R. Buttiglione, M. Pasquini. Epilogue; J. Seifert, P. Taboada. Notes on Contributors. Index.