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- How do cancer scientists identify and classify early stage cancers?
- What does it mean to say that cancer is a genetic disease? What role do genes play in mechanisms for cancer?
- What are the most important environmental causes of cancer, and how do epidemiologists investigate these causes?
- How exactly has our evolutionary history made us vulnerable to cancer? Explaining Cancer uses these questions as an entrée into a family of philosophical debates. It uses case studies of scientific practice to reframe philosophical debates about natural classification in science and medicine, the problem of drawing the line between disease and health, mechanistic reasoning in science, pragmatics and evidence, the roles of models and modeling in science, and the nature of scientific explanation.
- How do cancer scientists identify and classify early stage cancers?
- What does it mean to say that cancer is a genetic disease? What role do genes play in mechanisms for cancer?
- What are the most important environmental causes of cancer, and how do epidemiologists investigate these causes?
- How exactly has our evolutionary history made us vulnerable to cancer? Explaining Cancer uses these questions as an entrée into a family of philosophical debates. It uses case studies of scientific practice to reframe philosophical debates about natural classification in science and medicine, the problem of drawing the line between disease and health, mechanistic reasoning in science, pragmatics and evidence, the roles of models and modeling in science, and the nature of scientific explanation.
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Cancer: Natural, Social and Medical Kind
- Chapter 2: From Disease to Risk
- Chapter 3: Causation, Causal Selection and Causal Parity
- Chapter 4: Evidence and Environmental Epidemiology: A Pragmatic Approach
- Chapter 5: Explaining Cancer from an Evolutionary Perspective
- Chapter 6: Explanation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Andere Fachgebiete |
| Genre: | Importe, Medizin |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780197642504 |
| ISBN-10: | 0197642500 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Plutynski, Anya |
| Hersteller: | Oxford University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 234 x 156 x 16 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Anya Plutynski |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.05.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,427 kg |
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