Defining `disease'--classification must be distinguished from evaluation
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Defining "disease"--classification must be distinguished from evaluation.
The term "disease" is discussed with reference to the issues raised by Ian Kennedy in his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics and the definition proposed by Campbell, Scadding, and Roberts. Toon suggests a revised set of definitions based on a distinction between "diseasedness", the opposite of health, and the disease categories used in medicine to distinguish conditions needing specific tre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.7.4.197