Both health care practitioners and health planners are beginning to recognize the importance of differences between lay and professional concepts of health and

What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms,

This volume inaugurates a series concerning philosophy and medicine. There are few, if any, areas of social concern so pervasive as medicine and yet as underexa

The first book to give an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health and illness in close relationships.

How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educa