PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Flat Feet

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Gervais Yamb Desire

Document Summary

Lewis vaughn, charles weijer, & al. , chapter 13-bioethics: principles, chapter 13, pp. (cid:862)a condition that impairs the normal functioning of the human body(cid:863) A disvalued state because it may be associated with pain or discomfort. Definition/conceptualization or the understanding of what a disease might be is the fact that (cid:862)a disease can vary considerably from time to time, and from place to place . The debate: different positions and answers: the differen(cid:272)e (cid:271)etween disease and illness: boorse"s position (cid:862)normality(cid:863)). Starting point is the statement: (cid:862)health is essentially an evaluative notion(cid:863) (health is linked to values; But he will argue against the idea that (cid:862)disease and value are inextricably intertwined (interconnected). According to him, saying that (cid:862)a condition is unhealthy is a way of condemning it because there exist diseases that are of indeterminate value (example: infertility) and others that are positively valued (example: flat feet)(cid:863) His proposal: a real and objective view of disease in the place of normativism.