Koch’s postulates: An interventionist perspective
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Koch's postulates: An interventionist perspective.
We argue that Koch's postulates are best understood within an interventionist account of causation, in the sense described in Woodward (2003). We show how this treatment helps to resolve interpretive puzzles associated with Koch's work and how it clarifies the different roles the postulates play in providing useful, yet not universal criteria for disease causation. Our paper is an effort at rat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1369-8486
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.06.001