240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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. It investigates whether bodily conditions fall into natural kinds and whether... Read more
Biography
Lawrie Reznek
‘The reader will find here the most comprehensive treatment of the concept of disease. Any philosopher or physician interested in the conceptual underpinnings of medicine will be rewarded by a close reading of Reznek’s stimulating and provocative treatise.’ Edmund Pellegrino, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA.
