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  title info:
    title: What is disease?
  name:
    name part: Humber, James M.
  name:
    name part: Almeder, Robert F.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 361 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: In What is Disease?, renowned philosophers and medical ethicists survey and elucidate the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease, including discussions of the relevance of these concepts to the question of "diseased" sexual orientation and to alternative medicine. What is Disease? brings concerned readers up-to-date in the debate over the proper definition of "disease," a concept of central importance not only for bioethicists, but also for those throughout clinical medicine, sociology, psychology, and law who deal with disease and its associated problems on an everyday basis.
  table of contents: Rebuttal on health / Christopher Boorse -- Defining disease : the question of sexual orientation / Michael Ruse -- Malady / K. Danner Clouser, Charles M. Culver, and Bernard Gert -- Toward a pragmatic theory of disease / George J. Agich -- Defining disease : praxis makes perfect / John D. Banja -- Disease : definition and objectivity / Frederick Kaufman -- Disease and subjectivity / Stan van Hoof -- Concept of disease in alternative medicine / Mark B. Woodhouse.
  note: edited by James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Pathology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Medical
  subject:
    topic: Disease
    topic: psychology
  subject:
    topic: Ziekte
  subject:
    topic: Filosofische aspecten
  subject:
    topic: Medizinische Ethik
  subject:
    topic: Pathology
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: RB112 .W53 1997
  classification: 616.0701
  classification: 616.001
  classification: W1 BI615 1997
  classification: W 61 W555 1997
  classification: 44.02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: What is disease?
    origin info:
      publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, 1997
    identifier: (OCoLC)37019943
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Biomedical ethics reviews ; 1997
  identifier: 9781592594511 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1592594514 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: IDEBK
    record creation date: 100929
    record change date: 20260422170457.7
    record identifier: in00003506709
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng