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What is a disease?: Disease, disability and their definitions
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Metadata
- Authors
- Scully, J. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Basel (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Scully, Jackie Leach
- ORCID
- Scully, Jackie Leach
- Venue
- The EMBO Reports
- Published
- 2004-07-01
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 650-653
- ISSN
- 1469-221X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-3178
- PMC
- PMC1299105
- OpenAlex
- W2079205800
- Cited by
- 195
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 1.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- EMBO Reports (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- disease definition, disability, illness beliefs
- MeSH terms
- Chronic Disease, Deafness, Decision Making, Disease, Disabled Persons, Persons with Disabilities, Health, Humans, Terminology as Topic, Social Responsibility, Clinical Medicine, Genetic Predisposition to Disease
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