Titlebook: The Philosophy of Disease; Benjamin Smart Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Disease.Clinical Medicine.Rachel

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The Concept of Disease in Clinical Medicinedisease to be of particular importance — and for obvious reasons. For one, one’s disease status can have significant consequences. In the following sections I outline three prominent conceptions of disease, looking for that best suited to clinical medicine: those proposed by Rachel Cooper (2002), Pe

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What is a Pathological Condition?ter is by far the most frequently cited ‘naturalist’ conception of disease/pathological condition: that proposed and developed by Boorse. I go on to show that by replacing the biostatistical conception of natural function, with Karen Neanders etiological account, one can espouse a conception of a pa

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Conclusion: Context Dependency is Rifescipline: to improve the health of the general public. This is true whether one is an epidemiologist discovering causes and effective interventions, a pathologist examining tissues for diagnostic purposes, or a clinician attempting to improve the wellbeing of the patients.

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Springer Monographs in Mathematicses regularly. Just this morning, in fact, I heard that being tall increases one’s risk of cancer. I am not a short man, so this did not please me. On the other hand, 30 seconds later, the same news reader announced that the key to curing cancer might just be found in the sting of an unusual species

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The Theorems of Polya and Varopoulosdisease to be of particular importance — and for obvious reasons. For one, one’s disease status can have significant consequences. In the following sections I outline three prominent conceptions of disease, looking for that best suited to clinical medicine: those proposed by Rachel Cooper (2002), Pe

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Differential and Difference Equationsons in both evidence-based practice and medical research. As with the concept of disease, I conclude that there is not one analysis best suited to medicine. The notion of ‘what causation is’ is context dependent, insofar as the pathologist, the clinician, and the epidemiologist must (and do) adopt d