根本的価値概念としての健康

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It is not the purpose of this paper to give a new model or definition of health concept and to legitimate it, but to reflect critically on the way to use or investigate this tempting and puzzling concept. Recently health has ballooned to be very pseudohypertrophic. It is a synonym for happiness in respect of totality and ideality. After Kant, these concepts should not be used "constitutively", but may be used only "regulatively". Health measurement is an example of misuse. Another misuse is positive health, in which QOL is frequently stressed. Originally QOL has been used in the social sciences, the social policy processes, or in clinical practices for individual patients. Positive health, in addition, tends to apply QOL to healthy persons. This abuse is due to pseudohypertrophy of health concept; health as flourishing human life or self-fulfilment. In respect of health concept, from medical philosophy to medical ethics, from the clinical to the preventive dimension, the dual transition of our concern is proposed.
日本医学哲学・倫理学会の論文
1998-10-01