Author: Consuelo De Aerenlund
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1425701868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A clear understanding of the concept of health plays a key role in defining what health care should comprise and in developing adequate strategies for overcoming the current "health care crisis." This volume is the result of an international and interdisciplinary cooperation between medicine and philosophy on the current debate on the concept of health. Besides offering a critical analysis of the WHO definition and a review of both ancient and contemporary conceptions of health, the cooperative effort of physicians and philosophers presented in this book works through the challenges which any definition of health faces, if it is to be both truly personalist, and at the same time operational. The overall purpose of this book is to capture the essentials of human health and to propose the outlines for a personalist understanding of this concept, i.e., a conception that does justice to the personal nature of human beings by introducing dimensions that are essential to personal life and well-being, such as the realms of rationality, affectivity and freedom, the realms of meaning, values, morality, and spirituality, the realms of social and interpersonal relations. To grasp the uniqueness of the human person is not yet to grasp the specific nature of personal health. But it is certainly a first step, and it becomes evident that every theory of human health presupposes a theory of the person. Accordingly, the debate presented in this book is no less a debate about the nature of the human person than it is a debate about the nature of health. The investigations offered in this volume intend to provide an impetus for new conceptions of personhood and human health. The phenomenological approach has the advantage of advocating a systematic conception of the total person which combines surface experiences (subjective experiences of well-being) with deeper dimensions of the person (value and being). An adequate conception of the human person has enormous implications not only for our understanding of what constitutes the health and well-being of the person, but also for our conception of what health care should comprise. Hence, answering the philosophical questions, such as those raised in this volume about health, is crucial for the solution of political problems such as how to legislate health care policy.
Voyage to an Unknown Land
An Unknown Land
Author: Herbert Louis Samuel
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Unknown Waters in an Unknown Land
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Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595214738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595214738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco
Author: Wilfried Barbrooke Grubb
Publisher: SEVERUS Verlag
ISBN: 386347127X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
"It was to this strange land that I was sent by the South American Missionary Society in the year 1890." Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb (1865-1930) was twenty-three years old when he was appointed to Paraguay into the Chaco region "to penetrate into the interior and investigate fully the numbers, location, and attitude of the various tribes." In this volume Grubb gives "an account of the life and customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, with adventures and experiences met with during twenty years' pioneering and exploration amongst them." A vivid image of the Chaco region and its people is given by over sixty illustrations and photographs.
Publisher: SEVERUS Verlag
ISBN: 386347127X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
"It was to this strange land that I was sent by the South American Missionary Society in the year 1890." Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb (1865-1930) was twenty-three years old when he was appointed to Paraguay into the Chaco region "to penetrate into the interior and investigate fully the numbers, location, and attitude of the various tribes." In this volume Grubb gives "an account of the life and customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, with adventures and experiences met with during twenty years' pioneering and exploration amongst them." A vivid image of the Chaco region and its people is given by over sixty illustrations and photographs.
In an Unknown Land
Author: Thomas William Francis Gann
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In an Unknown Land
Author: Thomas Gann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258877118
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
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ISBN: 9781258877118
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
Journey Into an Unknown Land
Author: Jay William Wrana
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
An Unknown Land
Author: Viscount Samuel
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
To Abyssinia, Through an Unknown Land
Author: Chauncy Hugh Stigand
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Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
An Unknown Land
Author: Herbert Louis Samuel Samuel (Viscount)
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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