Nature of Disease

Originally published in 1987, this book is about the classification of bodily conditions into diseases. It provides a full account of the concept of disease, examining the issue of whether disease status is something we discover or invent and the issue of whether disease attributions involve implicit value judgements.

List of contents

Introduction: Medicine and the Need for Philosophy 1. Invention or Discovery? 2. Taxonomic Realism: Natural Kinds 3. Taxonomic Realism 2: Semantics 4. The Nature of Disease 5. The Normal and the Pathological 6. The Concept of Function 7. The Naturalist Theory 8. The Concept of Harm 9. The Normativist Theory 10. Disease Entities as Natural Kinds 11. The Semantics of Disease Terms Conclusion: When is a Disease Not a Disease?

About the author

Lawrie Reznek

Summary

Originally published in 1987, this book is about the classification of bodily conditions into diseases. It provides a full account of the concept of disease, examining the issue of whether disease status is something we discover or invent and the issue of whether disease attributions involve implicit value judgements.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrie Reznek, Reznek Lawrie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781032255170
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225517-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Social & cultural history, History of Medicine, Health psychology, Social and cultural history