Concepts of health and disease: interdisciplinary perspectives

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Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program/World Science Division (1981)
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The concepts of health and disease play pivotal roles in medicine and the health professions This volume brings together the requisite literature for understanding current discussions and debates these concepts. The selections in the volume attempt to present a wide range of views concerning the nature of the concepts of health and issues using both historical and contemporary sources -- Back cover.

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The Unnaturalness of Aging: A Sickness unto Death?Arthur L. Caplan
I. health.H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr
Definitional issues.Horacio Fabrega Jr
Should the morphine habit be classed as a disease?J. M. Fort
Definitions of illness.Richard Green
What is disease.Lester S. King
Case history—medical model.Aaron Lazare
The Seats and Causes of Disease: Author's Preface.G. B. Morgagni
The doctor-patient encounter and its relationship to theories of health and disease.Mark Siegler
Preface to the third edition.Thomas Sydenham
Three selections from Rudolf Virchow'.Rudolf Virchow
A theory of health.Caroline Whitbeck

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James J. McCartney
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