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A Second Rebuttal On Health

Boorse, C.·2014·Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
DOI 10.1093/jmp/jhu035
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This essay replies to critics since 1995 of my "biostatistical theory" (BST) of health. According to the BST, a pathological condition is a state of statistically species-subnormal biological part-functional ability, relative to sex and age. Theoretical health, the total absence of pathological conditions, is then a value-free scientific notion. Recent critics offer a mixture of old and new objections to this analysis. Some new ones relate to choice of reference class, situation-specificity of function, common diseases and healthy populations, improvements in population health, the practice of pathologists, "Cambridge changes" in health status, and comparative vs. absolute health concepts. I make no changes in doctrine, except to consider treating "normal aging" as pathological by taking young adults as the standard for all adults.

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Authors
Boorse, C.
Venue
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2014-11-14
Volume
39
Issue
6
Pages
683-724
ISSN
  • 0360-5310 (ISSN-L)
  • 1744-5019
DOI
10.1093/jmp/jhu035
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W2111471147
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313
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10.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
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