The causation of disease - The practical and ethical consequences of competing explanations

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-306

  Räisänen, Ulla ^a   Bekkers, Marie Jet ^a   Boddington, Paula ^a   Sarangi, Srikant ^a   Clarke, Angus ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal explanations; Common complex disorders; Coronary artery disease; Ethics; Health policy; Thematic and textual analysis; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CLASSIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHILOSOPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOETHICS; CAUSALITY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 33847703290     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-006-9007-5     Document Type: Article

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