Health and disease concepts cannot be grounded in social justice alone

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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 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.

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Item Type Article
URI https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/122253
Identification Number/DOI 10.52685/cjp.25.73.7
Refereed Yes
Divisions Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Humanities > Philosophy
Publisher Institute of Philosophy
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