Why We Explain - Review of Anya Plutynski, 2018. Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder, Oxford University Press [Book Review]

Cambridge Quarter of Healthcare Ethics 33 (First view):280-284 (2023)
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Since its initial publication in 2018, Professor Anya Plutynski’s Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder has garnered a great deal of accolades.1 In 2021, The London School of Economics and Political Science conferred Professor Plutynski the Lakatos Award, recognizing the book’s significant contribution to the philosophy of science. On the heels of its recent reissuing as a paperback, it is an ideal time to revisit this remarkable work.

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