The biostatistical theory versus the harmful dysfunction analysis, part 1: Is part-dysfunction a sufficient condition for medical disorder?

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom)

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 648-682

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic disease carriers; Benign disorder; Biostatistical theory; Concept of medical disorder; Concept of mental disorder; Conceptual foundations of medicine; Disease; Disorder; DSM; Harm; Harmful dysfunction; Health; Homosexuality; Pathology; Philosophy of medicine; Situs inversus

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; DISEASES; HEALTH; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOSTATISTICS; DISEASE; HEALTH; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 84937512114     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: 17445019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhu038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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