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Professor Pörn’s paper provides a very clear and elegant theory of health. It puts the notions of health, illness and disease into a well-developed theoretical framework, viz, systems theory, and it relates them in a clear fashion to other important anthropological notions, such as repertoire and profile of goal.
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Nordenfelt, L. (1984). Comments on Pörn’s ‘An Equilibrium Model of Health’. In: Nordenfelt, L., Lindahl, B.I.B. (eds) Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6283-5_2
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