# What Is Health?

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- Book: [What Is Health?](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-sterling/what-is-health) ([What Is Health?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-sterling/what-is-health.md))
- Authors: [Peter Sterling](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-sterling)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6204-330-4
- Pages: 264
- Published: 2020-02-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## 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...