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  1. On the Nature of Health an Action-Theoretic Approach.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1987
     
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  2. The concepts of health and illness revisited.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2006 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 10 (1):5-10.
    Contemporary philosophy of health has been quite focused on the problem of determining the nature of the concepts of health, illness and disease from a scientific point of view. Some theorists claim and argue that these concepts are value-free and descriptive in the same sense as the concepts of atom, metal and rain are value-free and descriptive. To say that a person has a certain disease or that he or she is unhealthy is thus to objectively describe this person. On (...)
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  3. The Varieties of Dignity.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2004 - Health Care Analysis 12 (2):69-81.
    As a part of a research project on Dignity and Older Europeans Programme) I explore in this paper a set of notions of human dignity. The general concept of dignity is introduced and characterized as a position on a value scale and it is further specified through its relations to the notions of right, respect and self-respect. I present four kinds of dignity and spell out their differences: the dignity of merit, the dignity of moral or existential stature, the dignity (...)
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  4. Health, science, and ordinary language.Lennart Nordenfelt (ed.) - 2001 - New York: Rodopi.
    One INTRODUCTION 1. Background The theory of the nature of health and disease, or of the concepts of health and disease, has been central in modem ...
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  5. Care of the older person and the value of human dignity.Félix Pageau, Gaëlle Fiasse, Lennart Nordenfelt & Emilian Mihailov - 2023 - Bioethics 2023 (1):1-8.
    As the world population is rapidly aging, stakeholders must address the care of the elderly with great concern. Also, loss of dignity is often associated with aging due to dementia, mobility problems and diminished functional autonomy. However, dignity is a polysemic term that is deemed useless by some ethicists. To counter this claim, we propose four concepts to define it better and make use accurately of this notion. These are human dignity, dignity of identity, dignities of excellence and attributed dignities. (...)
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  6. Functions and Health: Towards a Praxis-Oriented Concept of Health.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2018 - Biological Theory 13 (1):10-16.
    Contemporary philosophy of health and disease has been quite focused on the problem of determining the nature of the concepts of health and disease from a scientific point of view. Some theorists claim and argue that these concepts are value-free and descriptive in the same sense as the concepts of atoms, metal, and rain are value-free and descriptive. According to this descriptive or naturalist line of thought, the notions of health and disease are furthermore related to the idea of a (...)
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    Quality of Life, Health and Happiness.Lennart Nordenfelt - unknown
    The basic work for this book was carried out during the spring of 1989 in Edinburgh, where I had been granted a research position at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. I should like to express here my indebtedness to the Institute for the opportunity thus afforded me. I should also like to say how very grateful I am for the stimulating conversations I had there with Professor Timothy Sprigge and Dr. Elizabeth Telfer. Dr. Telfers’s own treatise Happiness (...)
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    Dignity at stake: Caring for persons with impaired autonomy.Åsa Rejnö, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Lennart Nordenfelt, Gunilla Silfverberg & Tove E. Godskesen - 2020 - Nursing Ethics 27 (1):104-115.
    Dignity, usually considered an essential ethical value in healthcare, is a relatively complex, multifaceted concept. However, healthcare professionals often have only a vague idea of what it means to respect dignity when providing care, especially for persons with impaired autonomy. This article focuses on two concepts of dignity, human dignity and dignity of identity, and aims to analyse how these concepts can be applied in the care for persons with impaired autonomy and in furthering the practice of respect and protection (...)
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    Views on Dignity of Elderly Nursing Home Residents.Lise-Lotte Franklin, Britt-Marie Ternestedt & Lennart Nordenfelt - 2006 - Nursing Ethics 13 (2):130-146.
    Discussion about a dignified death has almost exclusively been applied to palliative care and people dying of cancer. As populations are getting older in the western world and living with chronic illnesses affecting their everyday lives, it is relevant to broaden the definition of palliative care to include other groups of people. The aim of the study was to explore the views on dignity at the end of life of 12 elderly people living in two nursing homes in Sweden. A (...)
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    Rationality and Compulsion: Applying Action Theory to Psychiatry.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2007 - Oxford University Press.
    This book presents a unique examination of mental illness. Though common to many mental disorders, delusions result in actions that, though perhaps rational to the individual, might seem entirely inappropriate or harmful to others. This book shows how we may better understand delusion by examining the nature of compulsion.
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    Action, Ability and Health: Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2000 - Springer.
    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.
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    Dignity of the elderly: An introduction.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2003 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 6 (2):99-101.
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    Ethical and Methodological Issues in Interviewing Persons With Dementia.Ingrid Hellström, Mike Nolan, Lennart Nordenfelt & Ulla Lundh - 2007 - Nursing Ethics 14 (5):608-619.
    People with dementia have previously not been active participants in research, with ethical difficulties often being cited as the reason for this. A wider inclusion of people with dementia in research raises several ethical and methodological challenges. This article adds to the emerging debate by reflecting on the ethical and methodological issues raised during an interview study involving people with dementia and their spouses. The study sought to explore the impact of living with dementia. We argue that there is support (...)
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  14. Dignity and the care of the elderly.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2003 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 6 (2):103-110.
    The main purpose of this paper is to clarify some senses of dignity that are particularly relevant for the treatment and care of the elderly. I make a distinction between two quite different ideas of dignity, on the one hand the basic kind of dignity possessed by every human being, and on the other hand the dignity which is the result of a person's merits, whether these be inherited or achieved. Common to both these ideas is that having a dignity (...)
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    On the goals of medicine, health enhancement and social welfare.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2001 - Health Care Analysis 9 (1):15-23.
    Bengt Brülde in his article ``The Goals of Medicine. Towards a Unified Theory'' has proposed a normative theory of the goals of medicine within which the concept of quality of life plays a crucial role. In Brülde's analysis, however, the very concept of medicine is deliberately left quite vague and it is therefore difficult to see how the goals of medicine are related to the goals of closely allied enterprises such as health promotion and social welfare. In this reply I (...)
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  16. (1 other version)On the relevance and importance of the notion of disease.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1993 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 14 (1).
    This paper constitutes a defence of the basic philosophical enterprise of characterising concepts such as disease and health, as well as other medical concepts. I argue that these concepts play important roles, not only in medical, but also in other scientific and social contexts. In particular, medical decisions about health and diseasehood have important ethical, social and economic consequences. The role played is, however, not always a rational one. But the greater is the need for a reconstruction of this network (...)
     
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    On medicine and health enhancement - Towards a conceptual framework.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1998 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 1 (1):5-12.
    This paper contains an attempt at constructing a semantic framework for the field of health enhancement. The latter is here conceived as an extremely general category covering the whole area of health care and health promotion. With this framework as a basis I attempt to define the place of medicine within the enterprise of health enhancement. I finally indicate some normative issues for the future, in particular problems and possible developments for medicine as a species of health enhancement.
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  18. Concepts of health and their consequences for health care.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1993 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 14 (4):277-285.
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    The Importance of a Disability/Handicap Distinction.L. Nordenfelt - 1997 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 22 (6):607-622.
    This paper continues a discussion concerning the distinction between disability and handicap initiated in this volume by Steven D. Edwards. Edwards argues that the reasons advanced by the WHO for this distinction in its International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH) are not valid. Edwards also criticizes my own quite different grounds for distinguishing between the two concepts. His general conclusion is that the distinction is superfluous. In this paper I claim that Edwards's reasoning is invalid. I present five (...)
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    Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine.Lennart Nordenfelt & B. Ingemar B. Lindahl (eds.) - 1984 - Reidel.
    A great number of constructive suggestions for the analysis of the concepts and models treated are presented in this book, which mirrors a current debate within the theory of medicine by covering three central topics: the concepts of health and disease; definition and classification in medicine; and causal explanation in medicine. Among the issues dealt with are: How should the concepts of health and disease be characterized in order to be of relevance to clinical practice? Should we try to define (...)
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    Talking about Health: A Philosophical Dialogue.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1997 - Rodopi.
    This book is a scholarly treatise on the nature of health presented in the form of a dialogue between an inquirer and a philosopher. It elaborates a holistic theory of health, according to which people are completely healthy if, and only if, they are able to realize all their vital goals, given reasonable circumstances. health is applied t practices, on particular areas of interest.
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    Dimensions of Health and Health Promotion.Lennart Nordenfelt & Per-Erik Liss (eds.) - 2003 - Rodopi.
    A consideration of current debates in the philosophy of medicine and health care regarding the nature of health and health promotion, concepts and measurements of mental health problems, phenomenological conceptions of health and illness, allocation of health care resources and medical ethics.
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    On the nature and ethics of health promotion. An attempt at a systematic analysis.L. Nordenfelt - 1993 - Health Care Analysis 1 (2):121-130.
    This paper attempts to analyse the notion of health promotion and related conceptual issues within an action-theoretical framework. The purpose is both theoretical and ethical. The paper provides a taxonomy as well as a system for classifying various types of health promotion. This system is inspired by Professor G H von Wright's theory of action explanation. The theoretical framework is used in the ethical part of the paper where some major ethical dilemmas in health promotion are analysed. Particular attention is (...)
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    Standard circumstances and vital goals: Comments on venkatapuram's critique.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2012 - Bioethics 27 (5):280-284.
    This article is a reply to Venkatapuram's critique in his article Health, Vital Goals, Capabilities, this volume. I take issue mainly with three critical points put forward by Venkatapuram with regard to my theory of health. (1) I deny that the contents of my vital goals are relative to each community or context, as Venkatapuram claims. There is no conceptual connection at all between standard circumstances and vital goals, as I understand these concepts. (2) Venkatapuram notes that I stop short (...)
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    On holism and normality.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2004 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 7 (2):149-152.
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    Three Nursing Home Residents Speak About Meaning At the End of Life.Lise-Lotte Dwyer, Lennart Nordenfelt & Britt-Marie Ternestedt - 2008 - Nursing Ethics 15 (1):97-109.
    This article provides a deeper understanding of how meaning can be created in everyday life at a nursing home. It is based on a primary study concerning dignity involving 12 older people living in two nursing homes in Sweden. A secondary analysis was carried out on data obtained from three of the primary participants interviewed over a period of time (18—24 months), with a total of 12 interviews carried out using an inductive hermeneutic approach. The study reveals that sources of (...)
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    Identification and Classification of Diseases: Fundamental Problems in Medical Ontology and Epistemology.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2013 - Studia Philosophica Estonica 6 (2):6-21.
  28. Explanation of human actions.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1974 - Uppsala,: Filosofiska föreningen og Filosofiska institutionen vid Uppsala universitet.
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    Introduction (quality of life).Lennart Nordenfelt - 1999 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (1):3-10.
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    Introduction to Quality of Life: The Concept and its Application in Health Care.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1999 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2.
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    Descriptive or normative conceptual analysis – A reply to Henk ten Have.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1998 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 1 (1):15-16.
    This paper contains an attempt at constructing a semantic framework for the field of health enhancement. The latter is here conceived as an extremely general category covering the whole area of health care and health promotion. With this framework as a basis I attempt to define the place of medicine within the enterprise of health enhancement. I finally indicate some normative issues for the future, in particular problems and possible developments for medicine as a species of health enhancement.
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    The Goals and Limits of Medicine.Lennart Nordenfelt & Per-Anders Tengland - 1996 - Coronet Books.
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    The concepts of dignity : an analysis.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2021 - Ersta Sköndal Bräcke Högskola Arbetsrapportserie 99.
    In this article I provide an analysis of some salient concepts of dignity. The text is a development of a work which was initiated in the year 2000 in the research programme Dignity and Older Europeans supported by the European Union. The programme was both theoretical and empirical. The empirical part, which was the most comprehensive, consisted of focus-group interviews with health care and social care personnel, elderly persons within health care or social care, and representatives from the general public. (...)
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  34. Lazare Benaroyo Alex John London Universite de Lausanne Carnegie Mellon University Jeff Blustein Jeff McMahan Albert Einstein College of Medicine Rutgers.E. Christian Brugger, Donald Marquis, Thomas Cavanaugh, James Nelson, Tod Chambers, Lennart Nordenfelt, James Childress, Anders Nordgren, Kai Draper & Fredrik Svenaeus - 2006 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 27:1.
     
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  35. On concepts and theories of addiction.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2010 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 17 (1):27-30.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:On Concepts and Theories of AddictionLennart Nordenfelt (bio)Keywordsaddiction, disease, will power, autonomy, holistic view of healthThe article "A Liberal Account of Addiction" is a good piece of analytic philosophy applied to psychiatry. It is well-informed both with regard to empirical matters and philosophical conceptualization. The arguments are often—but, as I will show, not always—quite convincing. The conclusions of the paper also have crucial consequences for practice, for the treatment (...)
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    On the comparative approach to defining health: A reply to Brülde.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2000 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 3 (3):307-310.
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    Towards a new paradigm for health promotion.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2000 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 3 (3):315-317.
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    Hälsosamma tankar: 11 filosofiska uppsatser tillägnade Lennart Nordenfelt.Lennart Nordenfelt, Per-Erik Liss & Bo Petersson - 1995
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    A constructed dilemma about health promotion: a reply to Alan Cribb.L. Nordenfelt - 1994 - Health Care Analysis: Hca: Journal of Health Philosophy and Policy 2 (1):37.
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    Är Gud annorlunda?Lennart Nordenfelt - 2020 - Stockholm: Appell Förlag.
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  41. Att karakterisera hälsa: ett humanistiskt begrepp.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2006 - Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 2.
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    Causation, an essay.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1981 - Stockholm: Akademilitt..
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    Comments on Pörn's 'An Equilibrium Model of Health'.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1984 - In Lennart Nordenfelt & B. Ingemar B. Lindahl (eds.), Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine. Reidel. pp. 11--13.
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    Events, Actions, and Ordinary Language.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1977
  45. Fem betydelser av covering-law.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1970 - In Thorild Dahlquist & Tom Pauli (eds.), Logic and value. Uppsala,: [Filosofiska Föreningen och Filosofiska Institutionen vid Uppsala Universitet]. pp. 9--52.
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    Five Studies in Action Theory.Lennart Nordenfelt - unknown
    The essays presented in this collection were written over a long period. The first two : "On the Classification of Verbs and Actions" and "On von Wright's Theory of Action" constitute steps in my preparation for the book Events, Actions, and Ordinary Language, Lund 1977. Much of the contents of the former paper was carried over to the book, whereas the analyses in the latter paper were more or less completely left out. These papers have not been published before. "On (...)
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    Health and Welfare in Animals and Humans.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2011 - Acta Biotheoretica 59 (2):139-152.
    This paper contains a brief comparative analysis of some philosophical and scientific discourses on human and animal health and welfare, focusing mainly on the welfare of sentient animals. The paper sets forth two kinds of proposals for the analysis of animal welfare which do not appear in the contemporary philosophical discussion of human welfare, viz. the coping theory of welfare and the theory of welfare in terms of natural behaviour. These proposals are scrutinized in the light of some similar theories (...)
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    Konrad Marc-Wogau: en livsresa från Moskva till Uppsala.Lennart Nordenfelt - 2015 - Stockholm: Thales.
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    Mild mania and the theory of health.Lennart Nordenfelt - 1995 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 2:179-185.
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    Mild Mania and the Theory of Health: A Response to" Mild Mania and Well-Being".Lennart Nordenfelt - 1994 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 1 (3):179-184.
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