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Value-promoting concepts in the health sciences and public health

WebIn this paper, I explain how concepts, methods, and values are entangled. While the argument can be applied widely across the sciences, I focus here on the …

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Medicine, healthcare and the environment: from the salutogenic …

WebResearch in medicine is increasingly calling for the importance of the environment and climate change issues. In this paper, I analyse how the ecological dimension of health in …

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Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated

WebAbstract. The definitions and conceptualizations of health, and the management of healthcare have been challenged by the current global scenarios (e.g., new diseases, …

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Open science, the replication crisis, and environmental public …

WebConcerns about a crisis of mass irreplicability across scientific fields (“the replication crisis”) have stimulated a movement for open science, encouraging or even requiring …

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Proximal and Distal Causes in Medicine

WebFigure 1: Proximal-distal model of disease causation and health outcomes. Causal factors relevant to a final health outcome are organized along a causal pathway. This …

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The Institutional Definition of Psychiatric Condition and the Role of

WebThis paper draws on Quill Kukla’s “Institutional Definition of Health” to provide a definition of “psychiatric condition” that delineates the proper bounds of psychiatry. I argue that this …

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Experimental Philosophy of Medicine and the Concepts of …

Web5 – Lemoine ([15], p. 310) Boorse [21] characterizes this back-and-forth as a genuine game: “to call pregnancy per se unhealthy would strike at the very heart of medical thought; it is …

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Causal webs in epidemiology

WebThis paper contributes to the development of the notion of causal web, elaborating on the two following points: (i) to catch the spiders we need multi-fold evidence—specifically, …

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Forthcoming in PLOS Digital Health: …

WebForthcoming in PLOS Digital Health: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000104 4 functions is a crucial step to understand the actual impact and goals of using wearable

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Proximal and Distal Causes in Medicine

WebThe proximal-distal model of disease causation is often used to capture how social causes influence health outcomes. This model serves as a conceptual framework …

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Causal Pluralism and Public Health

Web4 intervention) (Greenhalgh 2020; Khalatbari-Soltani et al. 2020; Marmot et al. 2020). In other words, they provide only some clues, but insufficient to design effective strategies …

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Please cite as: Pandemic for Non-Pandemic Diseases. Check …

Webchance; or funding a research proposal with a 20% chance of finding a cure and a 1% chance. However, such extreme principles are rarely publicly endorsed, with utilitarian …

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Holism and Reductionism in the Illness/Disease Debate

WebIn the last decades it has become clear that medicine must find some way to combine its scientific and humanistic sides. In other words, an adequate notion of …

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Holism and Reductionism in the Illness/Disease Debate

WebHuman Sciences and Objectivity. As just noted, clarifying the relation between the two faces of malady expressed by the terms “disease” and “illness” is crucial for creating an …

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Menatti, L., Bich, L., & Saborido, C. (2022). Health and …

Web2 Keywords: health, medicine, environment, adaptation, adaptivity, philosophy of medicine, environmental philosophy, philosophy of biology. 1. Introduction Health is a debated …

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Phenomenology Applied to Animal Health and Suffering

WebTo appear in Phenomenology of Bioethics: Technoethics and Lived Experience, edited by Susi Ferrarello, Springer. Expected 2021. Phenomenology Applied to Animal Health and …

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Biological Normativity: A New Hope for Naturalism

Webabsence of disease".1 Boorse (1975) argued early on that this discrepancy is based on two distinct senses of health, one of which is naturalist and opposed to disease, and one that …

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Epidemics from the population perspective* Jonathan Fuller

Web1 Epidemics from the population perspective* Jonathan Fuller1 *forthcoming in Philosophy of Science 1 Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, …

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Justifying conditionalisation: conditionalisation maximizes …

WebJustifying conditionalisation: conditionalisation maximizes expected epistemic utility Hilary Greaves and David Wallace* April 20, 2006 Abstract According to Bayesian …

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