Constructive realism and medicine: An approach to medical ontology

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 353-366

  Simon, Jeremy R ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHROMOSOME 7; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE MODEL; EPISTEMOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; ION TRANSPORT; LUNG FIBROSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METAPHYSICS; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; METAPHYSICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; REALITY TESTING;

EID: 49749098372     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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