Hundertmark, Fabian (2026) What Health Is: The Blueprint View. Philosophy of Medicine, 7 (1). pp. 1-25. ISSN 2692-3963
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Abstract
This paper introduces the line-drawing challenge for ability-based accounts of health. What degree of which abilities is required for complete health? I argue that the answers provided by existing theories are flawed and propose the Blueprint View. On this view, an organism is completely healthy if and only if it has the abilities it would have in its design state, where design is determined by the etiology of its traits. This view provides an objective, naturalistic distinction between health and non-health. It strikes a balance between pure physiology and well-being, and distinguishes treatment from enhancement, as well as real pathology from pathologized variation.
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| Keywords: | Concepts of health and disease, Biological function, Dysfunction, Naturalism, Abilities, Design | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Depositing User: | Professor Alex Broadbent | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 05 May 2026 13:40 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 May 2026 13:40 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 29462 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Medicine | ||||||
| Publisher: | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/260 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.5195/pom.2026.260 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Date: | 28 April 2026 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-25 | ||||||
| Volume: | 7 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2692-3963 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29462 |
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