Universal etiology, multifactorial diseases and the constitutive model of disease classification

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 67:8-15 (2018)
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What are chronic diseases?Jonathan Fuller - 2018 - Synthese 195 (7):3197-3220.
Causation in medicine: The disease entity model.Caroline Whitbeck - 1977 - Philosophy of Science 44 (4):619-637.

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