Health and Functional Efficiency.
This essay argues that what is central to Christopher Boorse’s biostatistical theory of disease as statistically subnormal part function (BST) are comparisons of the “functional efficiency” of parts and processes and that statistical considerations serve only to pick out a healthy level of functiona...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 39; no. 6; pp. 634 - 648 |
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| Formato: | Essay |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2014
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