The Pursuit of Disease or the Care of the Sick?

In The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine. New York: Oxford University Press (2004)
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This chapter discusses the relationship between the sick person and the sickness, and between the disease entity and its existence in a sick person. It examines the place of symptoms in medical care, and how these symptoms get to be symptoms for the patient. The chapter looks at the relationship of a symptom to suffering and determines which is real: symptoms or diseases.

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