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• Title:In defense of an evolutionary concept of health : nature, norms, and human biology / Mahesh Ananth.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ananth, Mahesh, 1969-
  
• Published/Created:Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W61 .A533 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Health--Philosophy.
  Medicine--Philosophy.
  Naturalism.
  Normativity (Ethics)
  Evolution (Biology)
  
• Medical Subjects: Health.
  Philosophy, Medical.
  Ethical Theory.
  Evolution.
  
• Description:xiv, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Ashgate studies in applied ethics.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-230) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780754658528 (hbk.)
  075465852X (hbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction to the Concept of Health: Topic of Study: The Importance and Priority of a Concept of Health
  2. Boorse's Critique of Naturalist Concepts of Health
  3. Boorse's Critique of Normative Concepts of Health
  4. Function Debate and the Emergence of Boorse's Concept of Function
  5. Boorse's Concept of Health
  6. Boorse and His Critics
  7. Evolutionary Concept of Health.