 Etymology indicates that “illness” and “disorder” contain values (such as the preference for health over ill-health). The contrast between evaluativism and objectivism reveals nothing distinctive about mental disorder in this respect. But the theory of values based medicine (VBM) emphasizes that, because they are shared, values in the rest of medicine are not usually contentious. When VBM is adopted as a treatment approach, these contested values can be acknowledged, and the different perspectives supported, and subjected to negotiation (Fulford 2004, 2014).