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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.
Contents
AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1. The Concept of Disease in Clinical MedicineThe maximally value laden conception - Rachel Cooper on diseaseThe pure statistical conceptionThe frequency and negative consequences approach, and the line-drawing problemThe etiological account of function, and disease as harmful dysfunctionDisease as harmful function - 'drawing the line' on the etiological account of disease2. What is a Pathological Condition?Boorse's naturalismObjections to Boorse's naturalismThe frequency and negative consequences approach revisitedThe etiological theory of pathological condition3. Concepts of Causation in the Philosophy of DiseaseCausation as counterfactual dependenceClinical medicine and the dispositional account of causationThe classification of diseases, and the sufficient-cause model of causation4. Causal Inference in Public HealthHill's criteria and the evidence-based medicine evidence hierarchyThe epidemiologist's potential outcomes approachHernan and Taubman's potential outcomes approachDiffusing Broadbent - a Popperian take on the potential outcomes approachThe importance of nonmanipulable causes5. Concluding Remarks