Dis-ease about kinds: Reply to D'Amico
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 20 (5):571-584 (1995)
| Abstract | I argued that a value-free account of our concept of <span class='Hi'>disease</span> cannot be given. Part of this argument consisted in showing that diseases as a class do not constitute a natural kind. To understand this, we need only see that we define and classify conditions into diseases and non-diseases not in terms of their causes but in terms of their effects. While no philosophical position is watertight, the arguments overwhelmingly favour the conclusion that diseases do not constitute a natural kind. Keywords: <span class='Hi'>Disease</span>, natural kind, value-laden CiteULike Connotea Del.icio.us What's this? | |||||||||
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