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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| author | Brandon A. Conley Shane N. Glackin |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-1258614a628f405d884a35ba0257b5ed2022-12-22T02:11:31ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghPhilosophy of Medicine2692-39632021-04-012110.5195/pom.2021.1818How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about DiseasesBrandon A. Conley0Shane N. Glackin1Department of Philosophy, Colgate UniversityDepartment of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of ExeterDebates 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.https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/18diseasedysfunctionnormativismnaturalismsocial constructivism |
| spellingShingle | Brandon A. Conley Shane N. Glackin How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases Philosophy of Medicine disease dysfunction normativism naturalism social constructivism |
| title | How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases |
| title_full | How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases |
| title_fullStr | How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases |
| title_full_unstemmed | How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases |
| title_short | How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases |
| title_sort | how to be a naturalist and a social constructivist about diseases |
| topic | disease dysfunction normativism naturalism social constructivism |
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