The medical model of disability describes a widespread approach to disability common
since the 1800s that views disabilities of all sorts as abnormalities that need to be cured or …

Despite several decades of debate, the concept of disease remains hotly contested. The
debate is typically cast as one between naturalism and normativism, with a hybrid view that …

In this chapter, my first objective is to answer a fundamental question at the heart of the field
of public mental health: what is the field's proper ultimate aim? Although this question has …

With its rise in popularity, work in the phenomenology of medicine has also attracted its fair
share of criticism. One such criticism maintains that, since the phenomenology of medicine …

The concept of disease remains hotly contested. In light of problems with existing accounts,
some theorists argue that the disease concept ought to be eliminated. We answer this …

Transgender healthcare faces a dilemma. On the one hand, access to certain medical
interventions, including hormone treatments or surgeries, where desired, may be beneficial …

Welfarist Psychiatry Goes Global Page 1 NLM Citation: McConnell D, Savulescu J. Welfarist
Psychiatry Goes Global. In: Stein D, Singh I, editors. Global Mental Health and Neuroethics [Select …

Scientific realism is the philosophical conviction that the posits of science—quarks,
electrons, forces—are real, not just ways of accounting for the world. If true, we might take …

This thesis uses data from national surveys to investigate how personal economic outcomes
and health behaviours influence subjective well-being (SWB). Chapter 2 investigates how …

In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed a" global burden of mental
disease” and estimated 450 million people worldwide to suffer from some kind of mental or …