Robert Chapman - 'Towards a democratic approach to health concepts'

Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project, King's College London

Join us for the first colloquium in our new series called 'New Work on the Concepts of Health and Disease'!

King's College London

We&#x27;re very pleased to announce the first colloquium in our new event series called &#x27;New Work on the Concepts of Health and Disease&#x27;. On the 20th of October, Dr Robert Chapman from Sheffield Hallam University will be speaking on &#x27;Towards a democratic approach to health concepts&#x27;. There will be an option to attend in person (1.71 Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, King&#x27;s College London) or online. Please note that Dr Chapman will be joining us online, not in person, but you are most welcome to join us in person to watch a streaming of the talk and discuss it together. Abstract: &quot;So far, the key debate over how we should conceptualise health has been between naturalists and normativists. The former group holds that the boundary between health and illness is a natural one, determined by either fitness or evolutionary adaptiveness. The latter camp holds that the boundary is determined by societal values, and that illness is associated with disvalued mental or bodily states. In most cases – cancer, dementia, etc. – proponents of each theory agree on what counts as an illness. Key worries about each camp relate to controversial cases, and the risks of either wrongful pathologisation of marginalised groups (queer people, autistic people, fat people, etc.) or harmful depathologisation, where recognition of illness is important but at risk of being invalidated (chronic fatigue, OCD, etc.). In this talk I propose that we should move towards a democratic approach to determining what should count as healthy or not, as well as which of our available concepts (illness, disability, etc.) should be used. I argue that this may solve or help minimise key problems associated with existing accounts and may have have a range of benefits. I end by defending the position against several key objections.&quot;Dr Robert Chapman is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University. They work in philosophy of disability with a focus on neurodiversity and madness.

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