Complexity of the concept of disease as shown through rival theoretical frameworks

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 211-236

  Hofmann, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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Indexed keywords

CODING AND CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOMENCLATURE; PHILOSOPHY; REVIEW; THEORY;

DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0034918614     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011416302494     Document Type: Review

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