Titlebook: Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine; Lennart Nordenfelt,B. Ingemar B. Lindahl Book 19841st edition D. Reidel Publishing C

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On the Circle of Healthelieve that this circle is worthwhile studying for at least two reasons. (1) It is not altogether trivial and obvious, since it involves more than one step of reasoning. (2) It is the result of quite plausible analyses of the concepts involved.

枯萎將要

逃避責任

Clinical Problems and the Concept of Disease things in the world in a value-free fashion. They are instead goal-directed notions. The history of medicine shows some of the roots of this confusion in the process of transforming clinical problems into disease entities. Even ancient medicine offers such puzzles concerning the nature of concepts

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Health and Disease from the Point of View of the Clinical Laboratoryof reference values [20]. As arrangers of a congress we brought up the topic because we thought it might be interesting. The mental process leading up to this concept can be traced back to about 10 years earlier when several facts attracted my attention: I had been taught that Nature, including the

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A Critique of Essentialism in Medicinehe key terms of this vocabulary. Use of these terms is unavoidable in two crucial contexts: when specifying conditions for referring in a clear and exact way to entities in the world, and when specifying the causal conditions for the occurrence of entities in the world.

滔滔不絕地說

Comments on Jensen’s ‘A Critique of Essentialism in Medicine’ Jensen states that the establishment of a disease entity is not arbitrary, but that it is born of clinical practice. This point of view is very similar to the one expressed by Engelhardt at this meeting, that a disease entity represents a clinical problem, as current practice presupposes the abilit