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The Philosophy of Disease (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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The Philosophy of Disease (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Disease is everywhere. Everyone experiences disease, everyone knows
somebody who is, or has been diseased, and disease-related stories
hit the headlines on a regular basis. Many important issues in the
philosophy of disease, however, have received remarkably little
attention from philosophical thinkers. This book examines a number
of important debates in the philosophy of medicine, including 'what
is disease?', and the roles and viability of concepts of causation,
in clinical medicine and epidemiology. Where much of the existing
literature targets conceptual analyses of health and disease, this
book provides the reader with an insight into these debates, and
develops plausible alternative accounts. The author explores a
range of related subjects, discussing a host of interesting
philosophical questions within clinical medicine, pathology and
epidemiology. In the second part of the book, the author examines
the concepts of causation employed by clinicians and pathologists,
how one should classify diseases, and whether the epidemiologist's
models for inferring the causes of disease are all they're cracked
up to be.
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