Boorse, C. 1975. On the distinction between disease and illness.
Boorse discusses the idea that healthy conditions are good conditions, an idea he calls “weak normativism.” Explain one of Boorse’s two major counterexamples to weak normativism.
Engelhardt, H Tristram. 1974. “The Disease of Masturbation: Values and the Concept of Disease.”
Engelhardt discusses two ways of understanding the guilt associated with masturbation: essential guilt and adventitious guilt. What is the difference between these two?
