The dental anomaly: how and why dental caries and periodontitis are phenomenologically atypical

Abstract Background Despite their shared origins, medicine and dentistry are not always two sides of the same coin. There is a long history in medical philosophy of defining disease and various medical models have come into existence. Hitherto, little philosophical and phenomenological work has been...

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Main Author: Dylan Rakhra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13010-019-0084-5