Browsing by Author "Venkatapuram, Sridhar"
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HEALTH, VITAL GOALS, AND CENTRAL HUMAN CAPABILITIES
Venkatapuram, Sridhar (Bioethics, 2013)
I argue for a conception of health as a person’s ability to achieve or exercise a cluster of basic human activities. These basic activities are in turn specified through free-standing ethical reasoning about what constitutes a minimal conception of a human life with equal human dignity in the modern world. I arrive at this conception of health by closely following and modifying Lennart Nordenfelt’s theory of health which presents health as the ability to achieve vital goals. Despite its strengths I transform Nordenfelt’s argument in order to ...