Individualism and the medical: What about somatic externalism?

Analysis 77 (2):287-293 (2017)
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If mental illnesses are externally constituted, then so are somatic illnesses. Will Davies makes a persuasive case for externalism in psychiatry; as I show here, parallel examples exist in somatic medicine.

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Shane Glackin
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