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  1. „Prächtiges Menschenmaterial“ – Anthropometrische Konstitutionsforschung auf der Suche nach dem statistischen Normalkörper (1914–1922). [REVIEW]Nadine Metzger - 2020 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 28 (1):35-68.
    ZusammenfassungIm Zentrum der vorliegenden Arbeit steht das anthropometrische Forschungsprogramm der Konstitutionslehre während des Ersten Weltkrieges und die davon angestoßenen Reihenuntersuchungen der Internisten Theodor Brugsch, Hermann Rautmann und Max Berliner, deren Vorstöße in die Variabilitätsstatistik sowie die anschließende konstitutionspathologische Debatte um die Definition einer körperlichen Norm.Um der Konstitutionslehre eine Datengrundlage für den „Normkörper“ zu schaffen, unternahm im Umfeld des Ersten Weltkrieges eine Reihe junger deutscher Internisten umfassende anthropometrische Studien und nutzte dabei die Gelegenheit, die ihnen der Krieg zu Reihenuntersuchungen an Soldaten (...)
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  • “Splendid Human Material”—Anthropometric Constitutional Research to Statistically Determine the Normal Human Body (1914–1922). [REVIEW]Nadine Metzger - 2020 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 28 (1):35-68.
    At the center of this work stands the anthropometric research program during World War I for studying constitutional medicine and the connected series of investigations by the medical internists Theodor Brugsch, Hermann Rautmann and Max Berliner, their advances in the statistics of variability as well as the subsequent debate in constitutional medicine and pathology on the definition of the physical norm.In order to create a data basis for the “normal” body in the study of constitutional medicine, a series of young (...)
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  • Some causal limitations of pharmacogenetic concepts.David Badcott - 2006 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 9 (3):307-316.
    Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics are related facets of cutting edge therapeutic research in a field that relates pharmacological properties to the genetic characteristics of human beings. An optimistic interpretation suggests that “One-Size-Fits-All” therapeutics, whose effects can only be predicted in probabilistic terms, will give way eventually to individual tailor-made therapies with entirely predictable properties in each patient. Yet the concept of anticipating individual pharmacotherapeutic response appears to disregard some of the fundamental limitations of causal understanding in the biological world of structure–action (...)
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  • Against normal function.Ron Amundson - 2000 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 31 (1):33-53.
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  • Measuring Health : On the Theoretical Foundations of Health Status Evaluations.Amanda Thorell - 2021 - Dissertation, Stockholm University
    This thesis is about the notions of health and pathology in medical theory. I develop a theory, which defines ‘health’ and ‘pathology’ in a way that solves several problems with earlier suggestions of how to define these terms. I call the theory ‘the disposition profile efficiency theory’, abbreviated ‘the DPE-theory’. According to the DPE-theory, a trait token is healthy, roughly, if and only if all of its dispositions for performing physiological functions are efficient enough. A trait token is pathological, roughly, (...)
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