# What Is Health?

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- Authors: [Peter Sterling](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-sterling)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2020-02-25

## Description

An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms...

## Editions

### What Is Health?

- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6204-330-4
- Pages: 264
- Published: 2020-02-25
- Language: en_US