Establishing Medical Reality

Normality Disease and Enhancement. - Holistic Theories of Health as Applicable to Non-Human Living Beings. - Disease and the Concept of Supervenience. - Decision and Discovery in Defining Disease'. - Race and Scientific Reduction. - Towards an Adequate Account of Genetic Disease. - Why Disease Persists: An Evolutionary Nosology. - Creating Mental Illness in Non-Disordered Community Populations. - Gender Identity Disorder. - Clinical Trials as Nomological Machines: Implications for Evidence-Based Medicine. - The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences. - Maternal Agency and the Immunological Paradox of Pregnancy. - Violence and Public Health: Exploring the Relationship Between Biological Perspectives on Violent Behavior and Public Health Approaches to Violence Prevention. - Taking Equipoise Seriously: The Failure of Clinical or Community Equipoise to Resolve the Ethical Dilemmas in Randomized Clinical Trials. Language: English