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01622nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781009768016 |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| ISSN |
25151126 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
610.1 |
| Item number |
T136 2025 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Takacs, Peter, author. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Biology and medical theory / Peter Takacs. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication |
2025. |
| Place of publication |
Cambridge, United Kingdom. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
1 online resource (85 pages) |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Cambridge elements : elements in the philosophy of biology. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The philosophy of medicine has long been concerned with the status of diseases and disorders. Are such states genuinely pathological in an objective, mind-independent sense or merely value-laden social constructs? The prevailing dialectic in this area accordingly pits normative views against non-normative, naalternative turalistic positions. Hybrid accounts represent a better to these needlessly extreme 'purist' views. Hybrid accounts maintain that objective criteria for health and disease can exist independently and harmoniously alongside of normative considerations. Hybrid accounts to date have nevertheless failed to convince many. The failure is due largely to their reliance on inadequate notions of biological dysfunction. This Element attempts to redress this situation by sketching the outlines of a more sophisticated dysfunction condition. Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary medicine, the author examines the strengths and remaining weaknesses of a correspondingly revamped hybrid account of disease. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Medicine--Philosophy. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Biology. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Electronic Books |