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Homeostasis is fundamentally linked to health as a mechanism for maintaining physiological stability, with many medical frameworks defining health specifically as the capacity to maintain homeostasis {fact:1, fact:3, fact:9}. This relationship is further supported by perspectives that view homeostasis as a way to naturalize health [1] and promote a dynamic understanding of healthy functioning {fact:11, fact:13}.
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Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change | Biological Theory link.springer.com 15 facts
perspectiveThe authors of the article argue that applying homeostasis to health promotes a dynamic view of health, where a healthy organism responds to challenges by mobilizing internal resources.
perspectiveThe framework for the relationship between homeostasis and health posits that living systems must continuously undergo internal and behavioral changes to maintain viability.
claimDussault and Gagné-Julien (2015) argue that homeostasis can ground a naturalization of health that avoids reliance on population statistics and accounts for situation-specificity.
perspectiveThe authors of 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' argue that employing the notion of homeostasis fosters a dynamic view of health, which contrasts with common views that define health as a complete state of well-being or the absence of disease.
claimDussault and Gagné-Julien (2015) define health as the ability to homeostatically maintain the normal functions of an organism's organs and body to ensure survival.
perspectiveBoorse (1977) criticizes the use of homeostasis to naturalize health, arguing that while homeostatic processes are important for physiology, they are insufficient to define health and disease.
claimAdvocates of homeostatic medicine, such as Wang and Qin (2022), explicitly link the concept of health as homeostasis and disease as dyshomeostasis to Galenic and traditional Chinese medicine.
claimThe traditional cybernetic interpretation of homeostasis defines health as the maintenance of stability and balance, where physiological states are preserved or returned to a setpoint after a perturbation.
claimAdaptivity, versatility, and change are the three defining features of the framework for the relationship between homeostasis and health.
claimBechtel (1985) proposes an account of health as homeostasis, conceptualizing health as the capacity to perform the functions of life, which allows a system to survive and replicate despite environmental fluctuations.
claimVeen et al. (2020) define health as the ability to maintain homeostasis, which they describe as the maintenance of specific variables within an optimal range regardless of external stimuli.
perspectiveThe authors of the article argue that current accounts connecting health with homeostasis share common limits because they rely, to varying degrees, on a cybernetic perspective of homeostasis based on feedback and setpoints.
claimIn medicine, the cybernetic interpretation of homeostasis characterizes health as a stable physiological state that an organism must preserve or return to following a perturbation.
claimIn medicine, homeostasis is utilized to support the concept of health as a regime that requires maintenance.
referenceDussault and Gagné-Julien (2015) discussed health, homeostasis, and the situation-specificity of normality in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.
A Copernican Approach to Brain Advancement: The Paradigm of ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimHomeostasis conceptualizes the cause of health as the absence of abnormality in the factors of homeostasis.