Rethinking Health and Well-Being: A New Philosophical and Methodological Framework (Methodos Series, 21)

This book calls scholars to rethink health and well-being.Doing so, strikes as necessary for a number of aspects related to these topics have not yet been really addressed from a philosophical point of view.For example: can we really speak about facts related to health and well-being?If so, then are value judgments only evaluative tools and not quite inseparable from our descriptions of the world?If the answer to the first question is “no”, then does the rejection of facts leads us necessarily to normative conclusions about health and well-being?In other words, is it possible to have a purely descriptive approach to health and well-being that appreciates the knowledge problems we face?While settling the above can partly refurbish the philosophical landscape, more questions are hovering and are waiting to be unpacked.Since some scholars agree that health and well-being are, one way or another, related at a normative level, then is it possible to be connected in a purely descriptive mann