Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine

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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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Criteria of causal association in epidemiology.Anders Ahlbom
Holistic Medicine as a Method of Causal Explanation, Treatment, and Prevention in Clinical Work: Obstacle or Opportunity for Development?Erik Allander
Kazem sadegh-Zadeh.A. Pragmatic Concept of Causal Explanation
About causation in medicine: Some shortcomings of a probabilistic account of causal explanations.Anne M. Fagot
Health and disease from the point of view of the clinical laboratory.Ralph Gräsbeck
Comments on Ahlbom's 'Criteria of Causal Association in Epidemiology'.Germund Hesslow
What is a genetic disease? On the relative importance of causes.Germund Hesslow
Comments on Larsen's 'Disease from a historical and social point of view'.B. Ingemar B. Lindahl
Henrik R. Wulff.Comments On Jensen'S.
Disease from a historical and social point of view: Some remarks based on the needs of preventive medicine.Øivind Larsen
Notes on the philosophy of medicine in Scandinavia.B. Ingemar B. Lindahl
On the Selection of Causes of Death: An Analysis of WHO’s Rules for Selection of the Underlying Cause of Death.B. Ingemar B. Lindahl
Comments on Malmgren's 'Psychiatric Classification: The Status of So-Called “Diagnostic Criteria”'.Staffan Norell
Comments on Pörn's 'An Equilibrium Model of Health'.Lennart Nordenfelt
Models of causation in epidemiology.Staffan Norell
On the circle of health.Lennart Nordenfelt
Lennart Nordenfelt.Comments On Porn'S.
An equilibrium model of health.Ingmar Pörn
Comments on Sadegh-Zadeh's 'a Pragmatic Concept of Causal Explanation'.Ingmar Pörn
Anne M. Fagot.Some Shortcomings of A. Probabilistic
A pragmatic concept of causal explanation.Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Comments on Engelhardt's 'Clinical Problems and the Concept of Disease'.Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Comments on Nordenfelt's 'On the Circle of Health'.Stuart F. Spicker
Comments on Hesslow's 'What is a Genetic Disease?'.Henrik R. Wulff
Comments on Jensen's 'A Critique of Essentialism in Medicine'.Henrik R. Wulff
I meningitis.Henrik R. Wulff
The causal basis of the current disease classification.Henrik R. Wulff

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