Law 3101A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Robert Latimer, Stoping, Scurvy
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What do we mean by health? complex can mean many different things three perspectives: (1) biomedical physiology, normal physical state. Health is absent in any deviation of this normal state. Might be irrelevant to what is happening in your body: disease vs sickness, you can have a disease and not consider yourself to be sick, conception of being healthy may have less to do with biomed position, bmi. Bias towards thinking all health problems are tied to weight with larger people. Healthcare system doctors have a lot of power in defining health. What do we mean by law? a framework or blueprint: narrowly --> sets standards & regulates interactions law is the body of rules that can be enforced by the courts or other government agencies. Tool for defining how society should operate more broad. -> maybe not not a social practice or principle.
