Boundaries of Disease: Disease and Risk
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Abstract Increasingly, medical care targets conditions, like hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, which are defined as ranges of some clinical variable, not by any concrete physical pathology. These usually chosen from data on modifiable risk, well other empirical consequences. Such purported disease categories face three main criticisms, one practical two conceptual. The issue is overdiagnosis: the fear that more people suffer harm than benefit such diagnoses. second Schwartz’s Accad’s complaint risk must be confused. third most literature risk-based diseases wrongly assumes a conceptual connection between treatment. In this essay I analyze these issues about viewpoint my biostatistical analysis health disease. reach no conclusion first, overdiagnosis specific conditions. But conclude criticisms wholly valid: in traditional thought, neither nor treatability implies pathologicity. So Pickering was right: current hypertension, high cholesterol, true diseases, even diagnostic criteria for diseases. They are, at best, only justified
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical research archives
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2375-1916', '2375-1924']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i4.3599