A Life-Coherent Framework for Health, Healing, and Human Flourishing
From Root Causes to Life-Enabling ActionBy Dr Bichara Sahely
Length8h 29m
About this audiobook
A Life-Coherent Framework for Health, Healing, and Human Flourishing proposes a new integrative framework for understanding health not merely as the absence of disease, but as life-capacity enabled: the real capacity of persons and communities to live, develop, repair, relate, learn, participate, belong, and flourish within the web of life.
The white paper argues that modern health systems remain fragmented when they separate disease from the living conditions through which people suffer, heal, and thrive. It therefore reframes health through the organism–niche relation: the recurrent coupling between living beings and the biological, relational, social, ecological, economic, technological, institutional, and symbolic conditions that sustain or disable life.
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GenreHealth and Wellness
Length8 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 12, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dr. Bichara Sahely
2Abstract
3Executive Summary
4Part I. Why Health Needs a Life-Coherent Framework
51.1 The limits of disease-centered health thinking
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61.2 Health as life-capacity, not merely disease absence
71.3 Healing as completion, not merely intervention
81.4 Flourishing as a multi-level achievement
91.5 The central claim of the white paper
101.6 From root causes to life-enabling action
112.1 The primary life-value question
122.5 The task of life-coherent health work
133.1 Life-coherence
143.2 Life-capacity
153.3 The organism–niche relation
163.4 Maturana as guardrail: structural coupling
173.5 Galtung as guardrail: violence as avoidable life-capacity disabling
183.6 McMurtry as guardrail: life-value and civil commons
193.7 The guardrail questions
203.7.5 Who benefits?
213.8 The life-master question
22Part II. The Two Bookends of Health and Healing
234.3 The cell danger response and the beginning of repair
244.4 Inflammation as necessary but incomplete
254.9 Salugenesis in the life-coherent framework
265.3 Sense of coherence
275.4 Generalized resistance resources
285.5 Specific resistance resources
295.6 The salutogenic affordance field
305.8 Salutogenesis in the life-coherent framework
316.1 Inner healing and outer health-generation
326.2 The organism–niche bridge
336.3 Exposure, repair, and margins as the bridge mechanism
346.4 Life-coherence as the integration of both bookends
357.1 Cellular viability as the biological ground of health
367.2 Cell danger response
377.3 Mitochondrial function
387.4 Redox balance
397.5 Proteostasis
407.6 Genomic and epigenetic regulation
417.7 Stem and progenitor function
427.8 Immune resolution
437.9 The healing-completion cycle
447.10 Adequate substrates and safe context
458.1 The body as a dynamic regulatory ecology
468.2 Neuroendocrine and HPA-axis regulation
478.3 Autonomic nervous system
488.4 Immune system
498.5 Metabolic regulation
508.6 Cardiovascular system
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