Lawrie Reznek

The Nature of Disease (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1987, this book is about the classification of bodily conditions into diseases. It provides a full account of the concept of disease, examining the issue of whether disease status is something we discover or invent and the issue of whether disease attributions involve implicit value judgements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000579413
• Artikelnr.: 64089727

Autorenporträt

Lawrie Reznek

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Medicine and the Need for Philosophy 1. Invention or
Discovery? 2. Taxonomic Realism: Natural Kinds 3. Taxonomic Realism 2:
Semantics 4. The Nature of Disease 5. The Normal and the Pathological 6.
The Concept of Function 7. The Naturalist Theory 8. The Concept of Harm 9.
The Normativist Theory 10. Disease Entities as Natural Kinds 11. The
Semantics of Disease Terms Conclusion: When is a Disease Not a Disease?