Part one of term paper
: Values and the concept of Disease by Engelhardt Englhardt’s article is an example of the ways in which values impact society’s definition of disease. I agree that it is possible that science is being, or has been, limited by the values within society. For science to conclude that masturbation causes such aliments as blindness ...

Part two of term paper
... the eighteenth and nineteenth century masturbation was thought to produce the signs and symptoms of a dangerous disease: “Disease is neither an objective entity nor a concept of a single definition, there is not, nor need be, one concept of disease (UWO, p.241).” The problem with Englehardt’s article is our health system is that of the biomedical model. The biomedical model does not recognize masturbation as a disease. It states that “disease is a biological devia ...