How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases
Debates about the concept of disease have traditionally been framed as a competition between two conflicting approaches: naturalism, on the one hand, and normativism or social constructivism, on the other. In this article, we lay the groundwork for a naturalistic form of social constructivism by (1)...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Philosophy of Medicine |
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| Online Access: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/18 |
| Summary: | Debates about the concept of disease have traditionally been framed as a competition between two conflicting approaches: naturalism, on the one hand, and normativism or social constructivism, on the other. In this article, we lay the groundwork for a naturalistic form of social constructivism by (1) dissociating the presumed link between value-free conceptions of disease and a broadly naturalistic approach; (2) offering a naturalistic argument for a form of social constructivism; and (3) suggesting avenues that strike us as especially promising for filling in the details of an alternative approach and addressing the most obvious objections. |
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| ISSN: | 2692-3963 |