| 187 | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 |
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| 7:30 AM-8:30 AM | San Diego Convention Center:Room 7B |
| AAHE/Generic |
| The Need for a Value-free View of Health |
| Through a philosophical analysis and an historical over view, this presentation argues that health is an objective phenomenon. The authors of this paper offer an exposition that demonstrates how value-laden views of health, especially those that include notions of social and spiritual health, should play no role in health education. This paper argues that normativistic and value-laden views of health threaten the scientific foundation of health education and damage the profession’s credibility. Finally, the authors of this paper argue for a nonnormativistic view of health that is based on statistical normalcy and the natural functioning of the body and mind. |
Keyword(s): health promotion, standards and ethics
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| Presider: Priya Banerjee, SUNY, College at Brockport, Brockport, NY |
| Speakers: Joseph E. Balog and Linda F. Balog, SUNY, College at Brockport, Brockport, NY |