The Nature of Disease

Lawrie Reznek (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-25517-0 (ISBN)

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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. It investigates whether bodily conditions fall into natural kinds and whether these debates can be settled by discovering whether there are any natural boundaries dividing conditions into diseases and non-diseases. It considers whether the notion of disease is an evaluative notion or whether judgements about disease status are purely descriptive. The issue of whether other cultures with different values are justified in making different disease judgements is also discussed.

Lawrie Reznek

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?

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	603 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-032-25517-X / 103225517X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-25517-0 / 9781032255170
Zustand	Neuware