Saúde como ausência de doença: crítica à teoria funcionalista de Christopher Boorse

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Naomar De Almeida Filho¹  Vládia Jucá¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal da Bahia Instituto de Saúde Coletiva Salvador BA

关键词: Health concept;    Concept of disease;    Epistemology;    Boorse;    Functionalisty theory;    Conceito de saúde;    Conceito de doença;    Epistemologia;    Boorse;    Teoria funcionalista;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1413-81232002000400019

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This paper is an introduction to Cristopher Boorse's work. Boorse is a philosopher of medicine who created, in the 70s, the Bioestatistical Theory (BST). In this paper, we look into the structure of BST and its arguments, focusing on its epistemological basis as well as its logical and theoretical reasons for defining health as the absence of disease. After that, we discuss the critics addressed to Boorse throughout these twenty years of theorization by analyzing their actuality and adequacy. We also identify problems and strong points in the BST, bringing up not only the critics to the BST but Boorse's answers as well. Finally, we add some questions that can provide continuity and enrichment to the debate on the concept of health with the aim of exploring its applicability in a general health-disease-care approach, which is extremely necessary at this moment of articulation between biological and eco-social perspectives on health-disease phenomena.

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