British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64 (1):131-159 (2013)
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Theorists of health have, to this point, focused exclusively on trying to define a state—health—that an organism might be in. I argue that they have overlooked the possibility of a comparativist theory of health, which would begin by defining a relation—healthier than—that holds between two organisms or two possible states of the same organism. I show that a comparativist approach to health has a number of attractive features, and has important implications for philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, health economists, and policy makers
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Keywords | health bioethics |
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DOI | 10.1093/bjps/axs006 |
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