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- catalog contributor b2127140.
- catalog created "1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1987.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 214-222.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Medicine and the need for philosophy : Why philosophize? ; Sickness or poor training? ; Defect or decay? ; Habit or disease? ; Sympton or normality? ; Disease or way of life? ; Naughty or ill? ; A medical or political problem? ; A role for philosophers -- 1. Invention or discovery? : From anti-psychiatry to anti-medicine ; Values and classification ; Inventing diseases -- 2. Taxonomic realism 1: natural kinds : Taxonomic realism ; Medical taxonomic realism ; Natural kinds -- 3. Taxonomic realism 2: semantics : Semantic theories ; What language do we speak? -- 4. The nature of disease : Pathological conditions ; Do diseases constitute a natural kind? ; Do diseases have a nominal essence? ; Disease and explanation -- 5. The normal and the pathological : Do pathological conditions constitute a natural kind? ; The nominal essence of pathology ; The nature of norms of health -- 6. The concept of function : The problems ; The evaluative theory ; The teleological theory ; The actiological theory -- 7. The naturalist theory : The concept of malfunction ; Disease as malfunctioning ; Objections -- 8. The concept of harm : The logic of harm ; Theories of human good ; Naturalist theories ; The normative theory -- 9. The normativist theory : Death, disability, discomfort and disfiguration ; Disease as harm ; Objections -- 10. Disease entities as natural kinds : Are disease entities natural kinds? ; Is there a determinate number of pre-existing diseases? -- 11. The semantics of disease terms : What medical language do we speak? ; A taxonomy of terms -- Conclusion: When is a disease not a disease? : Non-existent diseases ; Conclusions.".
- catalog extent "x, 227 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0710210825".
- catalog isPartOf "Philosophical issues in science".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul,".
- catalog subject "616/.0012 19".
- catalog subject "Disease.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness Classification.".
- catalog subject "Nosology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, Medical.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatric ethics.".
- catalog subject "RC455.2.C4 R47 1987".
- catalog subject "W 61 R434n 1987".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Medicine and the need for philosophy : Why philosophize? ; Sickness or poor training? ; Defect or decay? ; Habit or disease? ; Sympton or normality? ; Disease or way of life? ; Naughty or ill? ; A medical or political problem? ; A role for philosophers -- 1. Invention or discovery? : From anti-psychiatry to anti-medicine ; Values and classification ; Inventing diseases -- 2. Taxonomic realism 1: natural kinds : Taxonomic realism ; Medical taxonomic realism ; Natural kinds -- 3. Taxonomic realism 2: semantics : Semantic theories ; What language do we speak? -- 4. The nature of disease : Pathological conditions ; Do diseases constitute a natural kind? ; Do diseases have a nominal essence? ; Disease and explanation -- 5. The normal and the pathological : Do pathological conditions constitute a natural kind? ; The nominal essence of pathology ; The nature of norms of health -- 6. The concept of function : The problems ; The evaluative theory ; The teleological theory ; The actiological theory -- 7. The naturalist theory : The concept of malfunction ; Disease as malfunctioning ; Objections -- 8. The concept of harm : The logic of harm ; Theories of human good ; Naturalist theories ; The normative theory -- 9. The normativist theory : Death, disability, discomfort and disfiguration ; Disease as harm ; Objections -- 10. Disease entities as natural kinds : Are disease entities natural kinds? ; Is there a determinate number of pre-existing diseases? -- 11. The semantics of disease terms : What medical language do we speak? ; A taxonomy of terms -- Conclusion: When is a disease not a disease? : Non-existent diseases ; Conclusions.".
- catalog title "The nature of disease / Lawrie Reznek.".
- catalog type "Classification. fast".
- catalog type "text".