Going Over normality-Health distinction: A New Overview

Authors: Irtelli F*

DOI: 10.23880/pprij-16000180

Volume 3, Issue 7

Abstract

A lot of interdisciplinary discussions have been opened about the topic of the health and its definitions, this happened also because often the concepts of health and normality are used in interchangeable way. Not in line with a such conception, and encouraged by the demand to find alternative solutions, in this paper has been analyzed some epistemic assumptions and the distinction between these concepts; these terms have been first examined in their historical and conceptual evolution, focusing on how the notion of health in past was founded on some dichotomic points of view, and then analyzing how today has been privileged a new dynamic perspective. Unfortunately also the concept of normality is often still based on some old dichotomic distinctions, not useful today; the conclusions of this paper point out the difference and distinction of value among these terms and finally put on in evidence the importance to go over a dichotomic vision for the definitions of the health and normality, to conceive anew bivariate model, and finally explain how the concept of normality can be replaced by the new concept of normativity.

Keywords: Health; Normality; Normativity; Conceptual Analysis; Distinction; Bivariate Model; Dichotomy

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