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• Can Evidence-Based Medicine Implicitly Rely on Current Concepts of Disease or Does It Have to Develop Its Own Definition? 

  Gerber, Andreas; Hentzelt, Frieder; Lauterbach, Karl W. (2007-07)

  Decisions in healthcare are made against the background of cultural and philosophical definitions of disease, sickness and illness. These concepts or definitions affect both health policy (macro level) and research (meso ...
• An Agenda for Future Debate on Concepts of Health and Disease 

  Khushf, George (2007-03)
• Why Bioethics Needs the Philosophy of Medicine: Some Implications of Reflection on Concepts of Health and Disease 

  Khushf, George (1997-03)

  Germund Hesslow has argued that concepts of health and disease serve no important scientific, clinical, or ethical function. However, this conclusion depends upon the particular concept of disease he espouses; namely, on ...