Taylor, Robert Scott (2026) Is the Disease Concept Enough? Redefining Health and Disease Through Conceptual Engineering. Philosophy of Medicine, 7 (1). pp. 1-23. ISSN 2692-3963
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Abstract
In the philosophy of medicine, the debate surrounding accounts of health and disease is typically centered on attempts to provide a proper conceptual analysis of a singular medicalized label, such as “disease,” that is meant to represent all pathological states. Instead of engaging in conceptual analysis, I attempt to redefine our concepts of health and disease through the process of conceptual engineering. To do so, I propose a novel hybrid account of health and disease and demonstrate how, by combining aspects of naturalist and constructionist accounts and distinguishing between two different medicalized labels—“disease” and “health condition”—my account can better serve the purposes of these concepts.
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| Keywords: | Disease, Health, Depression, Addiction | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Depositing User: | Professor Stephen John | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2026 12:33 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2026 12:33 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 29851 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Medicine | ||||||
| Publisher: | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/228 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.5195/pom.2026.228 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Date: | 29 May 2026 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-23 | ||||||
| Volume: | 7 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2692-3963 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29851 |
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