A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease.
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Superior document: | Philosophy and Medicine Series ; v.151 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024. ©2024. |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgement
- Contents
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Prologue: A Pragmatist Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Background Assumptions and Theoretical Starting Points
- 2.3 Connections with Classical Pragmatism
- 2.4 Problematic Situations Related to Health and Disease Concepts
- 2.4.1 Patients with Symptoms but No Pathology Are Not Understood as Diseased
- 2.4.2 Patients with Pathology or `Biomarkers´ but No Symptoms Are Understood as Diseased
- 2.4.3 Preventive Medicine Aimed at Preventing Pathology or Pathophysiology, as Opposed to Symptoms
- 2.4.4 Overdiagnosis
- 2.4.5 The False Presumption that Patients with the Same Disease Are Homogeneous
- 2.4.6 Problems with the Notion of Health
- 2.4.7 Institutional Designation of the Sick Role
- 2.5 Final Remarks
- References
- Chapter 3: Nature and Culture in Health and Disease: Historical Strategies in Medical Diagnostics for Navigating Between Criti...
- 3.1 Introduction: Diagnostic Essentialism and Nominalism
- 3.2 Diagnosis and Diagnostics Since the Nineteenth Century
- 3.3 Theories of Diagnosis in the 1920s: Crookshank, Koch and Vaihinger´s `As-If´
- 3.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4: Epistemic Inclusion and the Silence of the Patients
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The Silence of the Patients
- 4.3 From Continuity to Discontinuity
- 4.4 Epistemic Inclusion
- References
- Chapter 5: The Variety of Historiographical Medical Relativism
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Cunningham on Incommensurability and Retrospective Diagnosis
- 5.3 Jewson´s Medical Cosmologies and the Modes of Production
- 5.4 Mol on Enactment and Ontological Politics
- 5.5 The Spectrum of Relativism
- 5.6 Cunningham´s Relativism of Distance.
- 5.7 Is Cunningham Is Committed to Equal-Validity Relativism?
- 5.8 Jewson´s Locality-Relativism
- 5.9 Mol´s Ontological Relativism: Between Equal Validity and Distance
- 5.10 Summary and Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6: Cultivate Your Own Garden-Some Reflections on Martin Kusch´s Overview of Relativism in Medical History
- References
- Chapter 7: Is There an Epistemic Role for History in Medicine? Thinking About Thyroid Cancer
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Cancer and Malignancy in the Nineteenth Century
- 7.3 Bringing Order to Chaos: 1900-1950
- 7.4 Differentiated and Undifferentiated Tumours
- 7.5 Papillary Carcinomas Comprised Mostly of Follicles
- 7.6 Papillary Carcinoma with no Papillary Structures at All
- 7.7 Lumps that Needed Splitting
- 7.8 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8: A Plea for More History
- 8.1 Is it Important?
- 8.2 Is it Convincing?
- 8.3 How to Make it Even More Historical?
- References
- Chapter 9: Scope Validity in Medicine
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Validity, Scope, and Scope Validity
- 9.2.1 Validity Concepts and the Guiding Ideal of a Construct
- 9.2.2 The Logic of Validation in Animal Models of Human Diseases
- 9.2.3 Scope Validity
- 9.3 Towards a Relational Epistemology
- 9.3.1 A Particularistic Perspective on Disease
- 9.3.2 Scoping Methods
- 9.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10: Scope Validity in Medicine: An Asset to the Epidemiologist´s Armoury
- References
- Chapter 11: The Biomarkerization of Alzheimer´s Disease: From (Early) Diagnosis to Anticipation?
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Biomarkers for Alzheimer´s Disease: Food for Thought
- 11.2.1 NIA-AA 2011
- 11.2.2 NIA-AA 2018
- 11.2.3 Draft NIA-AA 2023
- 11.3 Biomarkers and Disease
- 11.4 AD Biomarkers: Promising Homogeneity and Certainty, Producing Heterogeneity and Probabilities.
- 11.5 Implications for AD, With or Without Symptoms
- 11.6 Towards Anticipatory Healthcare
- 11.7 In Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 12: Biomarking Life
- 12.1 Do Biomarkers Promote a Shift from Ontological Concepts to Physiological Concepts?
- 12.2 Are Biomarkers Responsible for the Shift to Anticipation?
- 12.3 Do Biomarkers Decouple Disease from Suffering and Put the Person at the Center?
- 12.4 From Marking (What Is) Bad to Defining What Is Good
- 12.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 13: Risk and Disease: Two Alternative Ways of Modelling Health Phenomena
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Explaining the Blurring of the Disease-Risk Distinction
- 13.2.1 The Plasticity of the Concepts of Risk and Risk Factor
- 13.2.2 About the Distinction Between Cause(s) of Disease and Disease
- 13.2.3 Probabilistic Modelling of Chronic Diseases
- 13.3 Limits of the Functionalist Conceptual Analysis of Disease for the Risk-Disease Distinction
- 13.3.1 The Functionalist Criterion for the Risk-Disease Distinction
- 13.3.2 Risk Level Is Used to Determine the Threshold for Disease
- 13.4 Risk Beyond the Normal-Pathological Dichotomy: An Alternative Gradualist Approach of Health
- 13.4.1 The Epidemiological Risk Approach as an Alternative Way of Modelling Health Phenomena
- 13.4.2 Neither Normal Nor Pathological
- 13.4.3 Advantages of the Risk Approach and a Gradualist Concept of Health
- 13.4.4 Challenges for the Risk Approach and a Gradualist Concept of Health
- 13.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 14: Fundamental Concepts in Medicine: Why Risk and Disease Are Likely to Stay on Board
- References
- Chapter 15: A Pragmatic Approach to Understanding the Disease Status of Addiction
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 The Vague Cluster Account
- 15.2.1 Vagueness
- 15.2.2 Cluster Concept Structure
- 15.2.3 Disease as a Vague Cluster Concept.
- 15.3 Addiction as a Borderline Disease
- 15.3.1 Dysfunction
- 15.3.2 Harm
- 15.3.3 Explanation in Biological/Psychological Terms
- 15.3.4 Lack of Direct Conscious Control
- 15.3.5 Conclusion on the disease status of addiction
- 15.4 Pragmatic Considerations in Specifying the Disease Status of Addiction
- 15.4.1 Pragmatic Reasons for Considering Addiction a Disease
- 15.4.2 Reasons Against Taking Addiction to Be a Disease
- 15.5 How Should We Precisify `Disease´ in the Case of Addiction?
- 15.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 16: Addiction and Its Ambiguities: Some Comments from History
- 16.1 Contested Nature of Disease Status
- 16.1.1 The Addiction-Or Substance Use Disorder-Spectrum
- 16.2 Harmfulness of Drugs and Drug Policies
- References
- Chapter 17: Pragmatism in the Fray: Constructing Futures for `Medically Unexplained Symptoms´
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 A Change of Scene
- 17.3 Turning the Tables on `Somatisation´
- 17.4 How to Take Symptoms Seriously?
- 17.4.1 `Forget (Biomedical) Explanation!´
- 17.4.2 `Patients Need (Good) Explanations!´
- 17.5 The Symptoms Clinic: Explanations as a Wager on an Unfinished Present
- 17.6 Conclusion: Choose Your Pragmatism Carefully
- References
- Chapter 18: The Bodily Deficit in Contemporary Healthcare
- References
- Chapter 19: Conceptual Engineering Health: A Historical-Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Positive Health
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 A Brief History of the Concept of Positive Health
- 19.2.1 Prelude
- 19.2.2 A Conference and a Position Paper
- 19.2.3 Developing the `New, Dynamic Concept´ into Positive Health
- 19.2.4 Uptake and Implementation
- 19.2.5 Critique
- 19.3 Conceptual Engineering
- 19.3.1 A New Meta-semantical Theory and Philosophical Methodology
- 19.3.2 The Target of Conceptual Engineering.
- 19.3.3 Conceptual Engineering in and for Medicine
- 19.4 Methods for Concept Evaluation
- 19.4.1 A Functional Approach
- 19.4.2 Carnapian Explication
- 19.4.3 Ameliorative Analysis
- 19.5 Assessing the Adequacy of Positive Health
- 19.5.1 Method of Choice
- 19.5.2 Through the Lens of Pragmatic Carnapian Explication
- Clarifying the Explicandum and Identifying the Task
- Assessing the Adequacy of the Proposed Explicatum
- 19.5.3 Through the Lens of Ameliorative Analysis
- Critical Analysis
- Assessing the Adequacy of the Ameliorative Concept
- 19.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 20: On the Social and Material Lives of Health Concepts in the Wild
- References
- Chapter 21: Healthism, Elite Capture, and the Pitfalls of an Expansive Concept of Health
- 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 Healthism and the Moral and Aesthetic Meanings of Health
- 21.3 The Tyranny of the Community
- 21.4 Healthy Eating
- 21.5 Healthy Sexuality
- 21.6 Healthy Gender Identity
- 21.7 Elite Capture of the Concept of Health
- References
- Chapter 22: Pragmatism, Pluralism, Vigilance and Tools for Reflection: A Reply to Quill Kukla
- 22.1 Introduction
- 22.2 Health as a Multifaceted Term and Its Relation to Disease and Well-Being
- 22.3 Health as a Value-Laden Term and the Need for Ongoing Reflection
- 22.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 23: Epilogue: Towards a Toolbox for a Pragmatist Approach to Conceptualization of Health and Disease
- 23.1 Introduction
- 23.2 Insights into Some Problematic Situations
- 23.3 Further Themes and Issues
- 23.3.1 Disease and Diseases
- 23.3.2 Context
- 23.3.3 Concepts, Conceptions and Conceptualizations
- 23.3.4 Functions and Functioning of Concepts
- 23.3.5 Continuity and Change
- 23.4 Towards a Toolbox
- 23.4.1 A Toolbox of Disease Concepts
- 23.4.2 A Pragmatist Working Method
- 23.4.3 Concluding Remarks.
- References.