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A 5 page discussion of the diversity of definitions of health which are in play. The author contrasts the approach of defining health from the aspect of the presence or absence of disease with the approach of defining health from the perspective of physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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concept of "health" can be considered from a variety of perspectives. These perspectives are not limited to just the physiological implications of health but also include psychological and social
implications. Indeed, medicine has shifted dramatically over the past several decades from a discipline which concentrates solely the science of our anatomy and physiology to a discipline which recognizes
not only the hard scientific facts of physiology but also the importance of psychological and sociological factors in relation to the concept of health. Health can, in fact,
be understood in a diversity of ways. This paper will outline two separate means of understanding health:
1. gauging health in relation to the presence of absence of disease and 2. gauging health in
relation to physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being Most would agree that while disease can
have a definitive impact on health, the concept of health is much more complex than such a simplistic definition would explain. Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of
viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one which views illness from not only a biological perspective but also a psychosociological perspective. Cartesian philosophy
envisions distinct separation between the human mind and the body. It is a philosophy which has been in place in Western medicine for many centuries. Under
this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existence were considered unimportant. Many considered this approach ineffective, however. Jones (1994), for example, contends
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