Two alternative notions of health

Medicine and Law

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 373-379

  Payne, Jan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Certainty; Health; Hope; Knowledge; Wisdom

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PHILOSOPHY; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS APPROACH; SEMANTICS;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; RELIGIOUS APPROACH;

CULTURE; GREEK WORLD; HEALTH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; JUDAISM; KNOWLEDGE; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0033655211     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Callahan D. et al.; The Goals of Medicine: Setting New Priorities; Special Supplement, Hestings Center Report, November-December, 1996.
2. Nordenfeld L.; On the Nature of Health; Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995.
3. Words "whole" - "heal" - "health" are derived from the Greek word "holon".
4. The definition of health "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity" was adopted by WHO in New York on 22. 7. 1946.
5. Uexküll T. von, Wesiack W.; Theorie der Humanmedizin; Urban Schwarzenberg, München Wien Baltimore, 1988: pp.: 177-200.
6. Fuster J. M.; The Prefrontal Cortex: Anatomy, Physiology and Neuropsychology of the Frontal Lobe; Raven Press, New York, 1980. Stuss D. T., Benson D.F.; The Frontal Lobes; Raven Press, New York, 1986, Damasio A. R.; Descart"s Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain; Avon, New York, 1994.
7. Fuster J. M.; The Prefrontal Cortex: Anatomy, Physiology and Neuropsychology of the Frontal Lobe; Raven Press, New York, 1980. Stuss D. T., Benson D.F.; The Frontal Lobes; Raven Press, New York, 1986, Damasio A. R.; Descart"s Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain; Avon, New York, 1994.
8. Fuster J. M.; The Prefrontal Cortex: Anatomy, Physiology and Neuropsychology of the Frontal Lobe; Raven Press, New York, 1980. Stuss D. T., Benson D.F.; The Frontal Lobes; Raven Press, New York, 1986, Damasio A. R.; Descart"s Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain; Avon, New York, 1994.
9. Ricoeur P.; Herméneutik des Symboles et réflexion philosophique; in: Le conflict des interprétations: Essais d"hermeneutique"; Éditions du Seil, Paris, 1969.
10. Comp.: the Hebraic and the Greek thinking for example in Coulnges F. de; La cité antique; Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1989 and Eichrodt W.; Theologie des Alten Testaments; Evangelische Verlaganstalst, Berlin, 1957.
11. Comp.: the Hebraic and the Greek thinking for example in Coulnges F. de; La cité antique; Libraire Hachette, Paris, 1989 and Eichrodt W.; Theologie des Alten Testaments; Evangelische Verlaganstalst, Berlin, 1957.
12. The main excellences in Greece were: andreia, eusebia, sofrosyné and dikaiosyné.
13. Particularly in the dialogues: Protagoras, Menon and Theaitetos.
14. Comp.: Plato; Laches 194D.
15. Comp.: Plato; Theaitetos 143D - 151D, 187B - 200D..
16. The word "a-léthé is an opposite of "léthé" as something that is hidden and obscure; comp.: Heidegger M.; Vom Wesen der Wahrheit; Vittorio Clostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1954: ch.: 6.
17. The true meaning of orthé doxa is the condition of epistémé itself. For example comp.: Patocka J.; Platon; Oikoumené, Praha, 1991: ch.: 5.
18. Jenni E., Westermann C.; Theologisches Handworterbuch zum Alten Testament; Chr. Kaiser, Munchen, 1984: pp.: 600-621.
19. The common connection is "khesed wa emet" while "emet" and "emuna" are almost identical words. Comp.: particularly the biblical psalms.
20. Among many influences flowing from the Semitic to the Greek are stressed the most prominent ones which are Stoicism and Christianity. Christianity itself can be understood as a transition of the developed ethical as well as mystical wisdom from the Hebraic to the Greek culture while this transition was performed particularly by the most prominent representatives of it Joshua/Jesous of Nazareth and Saul/Paulus of Tarsus. Zenon of Kitia (336-264) himself, a founder of the Stoic movement, referred to his Kennan origin; similar ancestors can be found also among his immediate pupils. Comp.: Diogenes Laertios; Peri bión gnómón tón en filosofiá eudokimésantón bibilia deka (ed.: Hicks R. D.); William Heinemann, London, 1925: ch. VII.
21. Comp.: Pokorný P.; Úvod do Nového Zákona; Vyšehrad, Praha, 1993.
22. Comp.: note 8.
23. Comp.: Hejdánek L.; Nepredmetnost v mycleni a ve skutecnosti; Oikoumené, Praha, 1998.
24. This sentence "jirrat adonai reshit khokma" is common particularly in psalms and asserts that the beginning of wisdom is the awe of God.
25. Comp.: Antonovsky A.; Personality and Health; Testing the Sense of Coherence Model, in: Personality and disease (ed.: Friedman H. S.); John Wiley, New York, 1990:155-177. Callahan D. et al.; The Goals of Medicine: Setting New Priorities; Special Supplement, Hestings Center Report, November-December, 1996.
26. Comp.: Antonovsky A.; Personality and Health; Testing the Sense of Coherence Model, in: Personality and disease (ed.: Friedman H. S.); John Wiley, New York, 1990:155-177. Callahan D. et al.; The Goals of Medicine: Setting New Priorities; Special Supplement, Hestings Center Report, November-December, 1996.