Health is an ordinary language word, not a medical term. A paradox implies contradiction, inconsistency, incongruity, a puzzle, enigma, ambiguity, confusion, a riddle, absurdity, dilemma, something that cannot be but is. Indeed these epithets are befitting of the nature of health. What is health? Can only individuals be healthy? Can we speak about a healthy [...]
A Unique Conception on the Nature of Disease
One of the main features which distinguishes Hygiene from systems of caring for people is the unique conception of the nature of disease. Health and disease represent a continuum that goes from the absolute optimum of functional excellence to the extreme of structural degeneration, just short of death. Health and disease are relative terms not [...]