INVENTORY #112344
Establishing Medical Reality: Essays in the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Biomedical Science
KINCAID, Harold; MCKITRICK, Jennifer (eds.)
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Topics include: normality, disease and enhancement; holistic theories of health as applicable to non-human beings; disease and supervenience; defining "disease;" race and scientific reduction; genetic disease; why disease persists; creating mental illness in non-disordered community populations; gender identity disorder; clinical trials as nomological machines; social epistemology of NIH consensus conferences; maternal agency and the immunological paradox of pregnancy; violence and public health; taking equipoise seriously. Indexed.
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- Publisher: Springer
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 2007
- Place Published: Dordrecht
- ISBN: 1402052154
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Philosophy and Medicine Volume 90. ix, 236, [4] p. 25 cm. 6 tables and 1 figure. Hardcover.