A New Edition of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Is Now Available

October 24, 2017

The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 42, no. 4, 2017) is available online by subscription only.

Articles include:

“Current Dilemmas in Defining the Boundaries of Disease” by Jenny Doust, Mary Jean Walker, and Wendy A. Rogers
“Geneticization in MIM/OMIM^®? Exploring Historic and Epistemic Drivers of Contemporary Understandings of Genetic Disease” by Rachel A. Ankeny
“Truth or Spin? Disease Definition in Cancer Screening” by Lynette Reid
“The Line-drawing Problem in Disease Definition” by Wendy A. Rogers and Mary Jean Walker
“How to Proceed in the Disease Concept Debate? A Pragmatic Approach” by Leen De Vreese
“Biological Criteria of Disease: Four Ways of Going Wrong” by John Matthewson and Paul E. Griffiths
“Harm and the Boundaries of Disease” by Patrick McGivern and Sarah Sorial
“Progress in Defining Disease: Improved Approaches and Increased Impact” by Peter H. Schwartz