RELIGST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Ideal Gas, Neurosis
13 Jan 2017
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On the distinction between disease and illness boorse. The common view that we cannot have a value free science of health is wrong. Because those who hold the view that the science of health is evaluative (value-laden) confuse the theoretical and practical senses of health . They confuse the terms disease and illness. Normativist are making a mistake; talking about two different things (theoretical and practical) Psychiatry is standing in place of morality: trying to tackle and legitimize these moral issues. Disease: a deviation from the body"s normal functioning. Illness: a disease which is i) undesirable for its bearer; ii) a title to special treatment; and iii) a valid excuse for normally criticisable behaviour: subcategory of disease. All illnesses are diseases but not all diseases are illnesses: illness has a normative component. The view that all judgments regarding health include value judgments they are good or bad.
