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Health and disease concepts cannot be grounded in social justice alone

Veit, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7701-8995 (2025) Health and disease concepts cannot be grounded in social justice alone. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 73 (1). pp. 99-119. ISSN 1847-6139

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To link to this item DOI: 10.52685/cjp.25.73.7

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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 grounded in social justice alone.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Humanities > Philosophy
ID Code:122253
Publisher:Institute of Philosophy

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