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Models of explanation and explanation in medicine
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 3 (2):199 – 212 (1989)
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Aspects of scientific explanation.Carl G. Hempel - 1965 - In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Free Press. pp. 504.
Hempel and Oppenheim on explanation.Rolf Eberle, David Kaplan & Richard Montague - 1961 - Philosophy of Science 28 (4):418-428.
About causation in medicine: Some shortcomings of a probabilistic account of causal explanations.Anne M. Fagot - 1984 - In Lennart Nordenfelt & B. I. B. Lindahl (eds.), Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine. Reidel. pp. 101--126.
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