What Is Disease? (Biomedical Ethics Reviews)
Contributors: James M. Humber (Editor); Robert F. Almeder (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: July 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780896033528
Subjects: Medical Ethics; Paediatric medicine; Philosophy of science; Diseases - General; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Ethics; Medical / Ethics; Diseases
First sentence: In this essay Boorse answers two decades of attacks on his "biostatistical theory" (BST), which defines health as the absence of disease and disease as statistically species-subnormal biological part-function.