Being Healthy Is Not the Same as Being Virtuous

‘Illness and disability are not ways to measure the value of a human life’

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There is a common, problematic way that many of us conceive of “health.” Too often we equate the absence of illness with morality. This leads down many troublesome paths both on a personal and a policy level. It seems we need to be reminded periodically that…