Understanding the Dynamics of Health

Author:   Patrick Daly
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
ISBN:  

9781487570910


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   11 November 2025
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Understanding the Dynamics of Health


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Understanding the Dynamics of Health develops a comprehensive framework for understanding health and its impairments, drawing on the work of Bernard Lonergan. By integrating perspectives from common sense, theory, practice, and finitude , this book examines health as a multidimensional phenomenon shaped by organic, psychological, cognitive, and social-historical factors. Providing a systematic and critical foundation for uniting diverse health-related disciplines, from network biology and neuroscience to narrative medicine, bioethics, and public health philosophy, this book's holistic framework not only emphasizes the lived experience of the whole person but also establishes a methodological approach for integrating the ever-expanding fields of health science and healthcare. This book is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and students in medicine, healthcare, and philosophy, as well as anyone seeking a deeper, more integrated understanding of health in today's complex world.

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Author:   Patrick Daly
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781487570910


ISBN 10:   1487570910
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   11 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part 1: Health and Common Sense 2. Health as Experienced 3. Making Sense of Health as Experienced Part 2: Health in Theory 4. Health and Normativity 5. Multilevel Dynamics of Function, Dysfunction, Risk, and Boundaries 6. Disordered Subjectivity 7. Theoretical Summation Part 3: Health Care as Praxis 8. Praxis and Interiority 9. Clinical Health: Caring for One Another 10. Social Health: Caring to Cooperate 11. Cultural Health: Caring about Meaning Part 4: Health and Finitude 12. Aging, Death, and Immortality 13. Hope and Healing in the Drama of Existence 14. Epilogue Glossary Index

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Patrick Daly is a physician, philosopher, and a research associate at the Lonergan Institute at Boston College.

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