Article Text
PDF
Abstract
In this short commentary, I reflect on the new definition of disease proposed by Powell and Scarffe. I suggest that the method they appeal to as objective, namely, rational justification, is open to several criticisms, which I outline and discuss.
- concept of health
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Footnotes
Contributors I am the sole author and creator of the article. No one else was involved in any stage.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
Correction notice This article has been amended since it was first published online. This article has been changed from a Response to a Commentary article.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Linked Articles
Read the full text or download the PDF:
Other content recommended for you
- ‘Rethinking “Disease”: a fresh diagnosis and a new philosophical treatment’
- Does the harm component of the harmful dysfunction analysis need rethinking?: Reply to Powell and Scarffe
- Response to commentaries on Powell/Scarffe feature article
- Disability and narrative: new directions for medicine and the medical humanities
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Abortion and regret
- Animal rights, animal minds, and human mindreading
- Debating disability
- Development of the chronic fatigue syndrome in severely fatigued employees: predictors of outcome in the Maastricht cohort study
- Neurodiversity and disability: what is at stake?