Explaining Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Medical Research and Clinical Practice

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Explananda, explanantia, and explanatory relations.- Chapter 2: Varieties of causal explanation.- Chapter 3: What mechanisms can and cannot do.- Chapter 4: Functions and functional explanations.- Chapter 5: What role for non-causal explanations?Chapter 6: Modeling diseases, explaining the diseased.- Chapter 7: Describing, classifying and explaining.- Chapter 8: Will we all be pluralists?.- Chapter 9: A tentative agenda.

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