Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine

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Reidel (1984)
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A great number of constructive suggestions for the analysis of the concepts and models treated are presented in this book, which mirrors a current debate within the theory of medicine by covering three central topics: the concepts of health and disease; definition and classification in medicine; and causal explanation in medicine. Among the issues dealt with are: How should the concepts of health and disease be characterized in order to be of relevance to clinical practice? Should we try to define particular diseases in explicit terms? What should be the criteria for selecting causes when explaining disease or death? These problems are treated from various points of view, the contributors being drawn from the fields of clinical medicine, epidemiology, psychiatry, social medicine, philosophy, and history of medicine.

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An equilibrium model of health.  (pages 3--9)Ingmar Pörn
Comments on Pörn's 'An Equilibrium Model of Health'.  (pages 11--13)Lennart Nordenfelt
Lennart Nordenfelt.  (pages 11)Comments On Porn'S.
On the circle of health.  (pages 15--23)Lennart Nordenfelt
Comments on Nordenfelt's 'On the Circle of Health'.  (pages 25--26)Stuart F. Spicker
Comments on Engelhardt's 'Clinical Problems and the Concept of Disease'.  (pages 43--45)Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Health and disease from the point of view of the clinical laboratory.  (pages 47--60)Ralph Gräsbeck
Comments on Jensen's 'A Critique of Essentialism in Medicine'.  (pages 75--76)Henrik R. Wulff
Henrik R. Wulff.  (pages 75)Comments On Jensen'S.
Comments on Malmgren's 'Psychiatric Classification: The Status of So-Called “Diagnostic Criteria”'.  (pages 89--90)Staffan Norell
Criteria of causal association in epidemiology.  (pages 93--98)Anders Ahlbom
Comments on Ahlbom's 'Criteria of Causal Association in Epidemiology'.  (pages 99--100)Germund Hesslow
About causation in medicine: Some shortcomings of a probabilistic account of causal explanations.  (pages 101--126)Anne M. Fagot
Anne M. Fagot.  (pages 101)Some Shortcomings of A. Probabilistic
Models of causation in epidemiology.  (pages 129--135)Staffan Norell
On the Selection of Causes of Death: An Analysis of WHO’s Rules for Selection of the Underlying Cause of Death.  (pages 137-152)B. Ingemar B. Lindahl
Disease from a historical and social point of view: Some remarks based on the needs of preventive medicine.  (pages 153--164)Øivind Larsen
Comments on Larsen's 'Disease from a historical and social point of view'.  (pages 165-167)B. Ingemar B. Lindahl
I meningitis.  (pages 169--169)Henrik R. Wulff
The causal basis of the current disease classification.  (pages 169--177)Henrik R. Wulff
What is a genetic disease? On the relative importance of causes.  (pages 183--193)Germund Hesslow
Comments on Hesslow's 'What is a Genetic Disease?'.  (pages 195--197)Henrik R. Wulff
A pragmatic concept of causal explanation.  (pages 201--209)Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Kazem sadegh-Zadeh.  (pages 201)A. Pragmatic Concept of Causal Explanation
Comments on Sadegh-Zadeh's 'a Pragmatic Concept of Causal Explanation'.  (pages 211--212)Ingmar Pörn
Holistic Medicine as a Method of Causal Explanation, Treatment, and Prevention in Clinical Work: Obstacle or Opportunity for Development?  (pages 215--223)Erik Allander
Notes on the philosophy of medicine in Scandinavia.  (pages 237-248)B. Ingemar B. Lindahl

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