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It is often claimed that the notion of health is related to a societal context; indeed that every society determines its own notion of health. Analogous claims have been put forward concerning disease and the other concepts of malady.
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Nordenfelt, L. (1987). On Some Societal and Scientific Consequences of the Welfare Notion of Health. In: On the Nature of Health. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7768-7_5
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