About causation in medicine: Some shortcomings of a probabilistic account of causal explanations

In Lennart Nordenfelt & B. I. B. Lindahl (eds.), Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine. Reidel. pp. 101--126 (1984)
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