Section One / Health and the Human Person. - According to Plato the Evils of the Body Cannot be Cured Without Also Curing the Evils of the Soul. - The General Systems Theory: An Adequate Framework for a Personalist Concept of Health?. - Health: Two Idolatries. - The Concept of Mental Health. - What is Human Health? Towards Understanding its Personalist Dimensions. - Section Two / Health and Human Well-Being. - Health Disease and Persons: Well-being in a Post-Modern World. - The Good of Health: An Argument for an Objectivist Understanding. - Empirical and Philosophical Aspects of a Definition of Health and Disease. - Section Three / Health and Society. - Positive and Negative Aspects of the WHO Definition of Health and their Implications for a New Concept of Health in the Future. - The Challenge of Government in the Constructing of Health Care Policy. - Epilogue. - Notes on Contributors. Language: English