Introduction

Kateryna Fedoryka, Paulina Taboada

1-15

According to Plato, the evils of the body cannot be cured without also curing the evils of the soul

Giovanni Reale

19-31

The general systems theory

an adequate framework for a personalist concept of health?

Paulina Taboada

33-53

Health

two idolatries

Pascal Ide

55-85

The concept of mental health

Armando Roa

87-107

What is human health?

towards understanding its personalist dimensions

Josef Seifert

109-143

Health, disease, and persons

well-being in a post-modern world

Tristram Engelhardt

147-163

The good of health

an argument for an objectivist understanding

Patricia Donohue-White, Kateryna Fedoryka

165-185

Empirical and philosophical aspects of a definition of health and disease

Manuel Lavados

187-206

Positive and negative aspects of the who definition of health, and their implications for a new concept of health in the future

Piet Van Spijk

209-227

The challenge of government in the constructing of health care policy

Rocco Buttiglione, Manuela Pasquini

229-239

Epilogue

Josef Seifert, Paulina Taboada

241-252