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    An individual can be unhealthy even if free of disability... — Carmelics
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    An individual can be unhealthy even if free of disability or disease

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    • 1.Health is a state of psychophysical flourishing or vitality
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    • 2.The absence of disability or disease does not guarantee psychophysical flourishing or vitality
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    • 1.Health is properly defined as normal species-typical biological functioning, as Boorse's biostatistical theory holds.
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    • 2.Any organism functioning within species-typical statistical norms is, by definition, healthy regardless of subjective vitality.
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    • 3.Therefore, 'unhealthy without disease or disability' is a category error that conflates wellness with health.
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    • 1.Nordenfelt's welfare theory holds that health is the ability to achieve vital goals under standard conditions.
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    • 2.Disability and disease are precisely the conditions that impair goal-achievement capacity under standard conditions.
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    • 3.Positing unhealthiness absent these conditions renders the health concept unmeasurable and clinically vacuous.
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    If health is defined simply as the absence of disease, then a person can be disabled but healthy if and only if he can be disabled but not diseased. If, however, health is a state of psychophysical flourishing or vitality, then an individual can be healthy, although perhaps not perfectly healthy, even if disabled or diseased, and unhealthy even if free of disability or disease.
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