Per-Erik Liss, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of Health and Society, Linköping University. He has a background in philosophy and re-ceived his doctoral degree at the Department of Health and Society in 1990. He has a particular interest in the field of setting priorities in health care; his main publication in this field is Health Care Need (1993).Lennart Nordenfelt has been Professor of Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care at the Department of Health and Society, Linköping University, since 1987. He received his doctoral degree in theoretical philosophy at the Uni-versity of Uppsala in 1974 and was subsequently appointed a lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Stockholm. Nordenfelt has made contributions mainly to action theory, the theory of medicine, and the theory of health and welfare. His monographs include On the Nature of Health (1987 and 1995) and Action, Ability, and Health (2000).

"Nordenfelt [is] one of the most famous experts on philosophy of health and on questions of health care …the book overall raises some very interesting questions and discusses them on a high level … a very valuable read" - in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2003)

• Foreword by Ingmar PörnEditors’ PrefacePart One Characterizations of Health and the Good LifeONE Bo PETERSSON: Health, Doctors, and the Good Life: A Footnote to PlatoTWO Per SUNDSTRÖM: Health as Metaphor and as Metonymy – An ExplorationTHREE Lennart NORDENFELT: An Evolutionary Concept of Health: Health as Natural FunctionPart Two Concepts and Measurements of Mental Health. The Context of Psychotherapeutic TreatmentFOUR Einar JAKOBSSON: Health, Psychopathology, and the Action of the “Talking Cures”FIVE Per-Anders TENGLAND: A Conceptual Approach to Measuring Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic TreatmentPart Three Health and Illness from a Phenomenological Point of ViewSIX Jennifer BULLINGTON: Health as Receptivity: A Phenomenological Interpretation of AllostasisSEVEN Fredrik SVENAEUS: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Concepts Handicap and IllnessPart Four Health and Health Promotion from the point of view of family medicine, medical genetics and the care of the elderlyEIGHT Olle HELLSTRÖM: Health and Dialogue-Based MedicineNINE Kristin ZEILER: Transgressive Technologies in Reproductive Medicine: Do They Call for a Revision of Notions of Health?TEN Bengt RICHT: Old, Ill and Estranged: On the Needs of Persons Receiving Elderly CarePart Five Constraints on Interventions: Scientific and Ethical RequirementsELEVEN Per-Erik LISS: Allocation of Scarce Resources in Health Care: Values and ConceptsTWELVE Ingemar NORDIN: QuackeryTHIRTEEN Nina NIKKU: Private Life: Sketching Entrances for Ethical AnalysisWorks CitedAbout the ContributorsIndex

Per-Erik Liss, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of Health and Society, Linköping University. He has a background in philosophy and re-ceived his doctoral degree at the Department of Health and Society in 1990. He has a particular interest in the field of setting priorities in health care; his main publication in this field is Health Care Need (1993).Lennart Nordenfelt has been Professor of Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care at the Department of Health and Society, Linköping University, since 1987. He received his doctoral degree in theoretical philosophy at the Uni-versity of Uppsala in 1974 and was subsequently appointed a lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Stockholm. Nordenfelt has made contributions mainly to action theory, the theory of medicine, and the theory of health and welfare. His monographs include On the Nature of Health (1987 and 1995) and Action, Ability, and Health (2000).

"Nordenfelt [is] one of the most famous experts on philosophy of health and on questions of health care …the book overall raises some very interesting questions and discusses them on a high level … a very valuable read" - in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2003)

• Foreword by Ingmar PörnEditors’ PrefacePart One Characterizations of Health and the Good LifeONE Bo PETERSSON: Health, Doctors, and the Good Life: A Footnote to PlatoTWO Per SUNDSTRÖM: Health as Metaphor and as Metonymy – An ExplorationTHREE Lennart NORDENFELT: An Evolutionary Concept of Health: Health as Natural FunctionPart Two Concepts and Measurements of Mental Health. The Context of Psychotherapeutic TreatmentFOUR Einar JAKOBSSON: Health, Psychopathology, and the Action of the “Talking Cures”FIVE Per-Anders TENGLAND: A Conceptual Approach to Measuring Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic TreatmentPart Three Health and Illness from a Phenomenological Point of ViewSIX Jennifer BULLINGTON: Health as Receptivity: A Phenomenological Interpretation of AllostasisSEVEN Fredrik SVENAEUS: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Concepts Handicap and IllnessPart Four Health and Health Promotion from the point of view of family medicine, medical genetics and the care of the elderlyEIGHT Olle HELLSTRÖM: Health and Dialogue-Based MedicineNINE Kristin ZEILER: Transgressive Technologies in Reproductive Medicine: Do They Call for a Revision of Notions of Health?TEN Bengt RICHT: Old, Ill and Estranged: On the Needs of Persons Receiving Elderly CarePart Five Constraints on Interventions: Scientific and Ethical RequirementsELEVEN Per-Erik LISS: Allocation of Scarce Resources in Health Care: Values and ConceptsTWELVE Ingemar NORDIN: QuackeryTHIRTEEN Nina NIKKU: Private Life: Sketching Entrances for Ethical AnalysisWorks CitedAbout the ContributorsIndex