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Subsequently, we will explore the relation between a health or disease definition, its practical function, and the context it is deployed in—and discuss how this could be relevant in further research aimed at formulating context-specific definitions.
1 mar 2022 · Health, disease, overdiagnosis and defensive medicine are interrelated complex concepts that lack formal definitions and a uniform holistic perspective.
9 lip 2018 · In this paper, we examine recent critiques of the debate about defining disease, which claim that its use of conceptual analysis embeds the problematic assumption that the concept is classically structured. These critiques suggest, instead, developing plural stipulative definitions.
25 paź 2014 · In medical language, necessary conditions of disease entities are called “obligatory” conditions; sufficient conditions are called “pathognomonic.” Thus, one method of defining a disease entity (method A) consists in specifying conditions that are obligatory and pathognomonic for its presence.
1 sty 2014 · There has not been an absolute consensus on the definitions of health, disease, and illness, even though these concepts are central not only in medicine but also in the health social sciences (e.g., medical sociology, health psychology and medical demography). These are parts of the conceptual tools in various medical-related fields.
Koch and Pasteur provided modern medicine with its primary model of disease – that it has a specific and organic cause. Treatment is generally developed from an understanding of that agent of causation.
This chapter provides an overview of the problem of conceptual definition of ‘health’ and ‘disease’ as a background to situate and introduce the discussion about health outcomes and value of new medical interventions.
