Health, happiness and health promotion

Journal of Applied Philosophy 22 (1):1–15 (2005)
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This article claims that health promotion is best practised in the light of an Aristotelian conception of the good life for humans and of the place of health within it.

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10.1111/j.1468-5930.2005.00288.x

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Aristotle's first principles.Terence Irwin - 1988 - New York: Oxford University Press.
The moral limits of the criminal law.Joel Feinberg - 1984 - New York: Oxford University Press.
The myth of mental illness.Thomas S. Szasz - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press. pp. 43--50.

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