Veit, Walter (2025) Why the concepts of health and disease cannot be grounded in social justice alone. [Preprint]

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Abstract

In a recent publication, Kukla (2014) has argued that we should we abandon naturalistic and social constructivist considerations in attempts to define health due to their alleged failure to account for their normativity and instead define them purely in terms of ‘social justice’. Here, I shall argue that such a purely normativist project is self-defeating, and hence, that health and disease cannot be defined through recourse to social justice alone.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Veit, Walter wrwveit@gmail.com 0000-0001-7701-8995
Keywords:	health; disease; conceptual engineering; conceptual analysis; naturalism
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics General Issues > Ethical Issues Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry
Depositing User:	Dr. Walter Veit
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2025 13:34
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2025 13:34
Item ID:	24933
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics General Issues > Ethical Issues Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry
Date:	2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24933

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