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Explaining Cancer - Finding Order in Disorder (Paperback)
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Explaining Cancer - Finding Order in Disorder (Paperback)
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In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of
philosophical questions that arise in the context of cancer science
and medicine. She begins with the following concerns: * How do
scientists classify cancer? Do these classifications reflect
nature's "joints"? * How do cancer scientists identify and classify
early stage cancers? * What does it mean to say that cancer is a
"genetic" disease? What role do genes play in "mechanisms for"
cancer? * What are the most important environmental causes of
cancer, and how do epidemiologists investigate these causes? * How
exactly has our evolutionary history made us vulnerable to cancer?
Explaining Cancer uses these questions as an entree into a family
of philosophical debates. It uses case studies of scientific
practice to reframe philosophical debates about natural
classification in science and medicine, the problem of drawing the
line between disease and health, mechanistic reasoning in science,
pragmatics and evidence, the roles of models and modeling in
science, and the nature of scientific explanation.
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