Establishing medical reality : essays in the metaphysics and epistemology of biomedical science /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, c2007. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 236 p.) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophy and medicine ; v. 90 Philosophy and medicine ; v. 90. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8882804 |
Table of Contents:
- Normality, disease and enhancement / Theodore M. Benditt
- Holistic theories of health as applicable to non-human living beings / Lennart Nordenfelt
- Disease and the concept of supervenience / Robert D'Amico
- Decision and discovery in defining disease / Peter H. Schwartz
- Race and scientific reduction / Mark Risjord
- Towards an adequate account of genetic disease / Kelly C. Smith
- Why disease persists / Robert L. Perlman
- Creating mental illness in non-disordered community populations / Allan V. Horwitz
- Gender identity disorder / Jennifer McKitrick
- Clinical trials as nomological machines / Robyn Bluhm
- The social epistemology of NIH consensus conferences / Miriam Solomon
- Maternal agency and the immunological paradox of pregnancy / Moira Howes
- Violence and public health / Jonathan Kaplan
- Taking equipoise seriously / Fred Gifford.