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The Philosophy of Disease

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Title/Author:	The Philosophy of Disease/ by Benjamin Smart.
Author:	Smart, Benjamin.
Description:	X, 100 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Philosophy and science. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137552921
ISBN:	9781137552921

The Philosophy of Disease
Smart, Benjamin.

The Philosophy of Disease[electronic resource] /by Benjamin Smart. - 1st ed. 2016. - X, 100 p.online resource.

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.

ISBN: 9781137552921

Standard No.: 10.1057/9781137552921doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

555818
Philosophy and science.

LC Class. No.: B67

Dewey Class. No.: 501

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