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THEORETICAL MEDICINE AND BIOETHICS
Volume 31, Issue 5, Pages 347-369Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-010-9146-9
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Natural kinds; Medical kinds; Special sciences; Causation; Induction; Natural law
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In this paper, I focus on life-threatening medical conditions and argue that from the point of view of natural properties, induction(s), and participation in laws, at least some of the ill organisms dealt with in somatic medicine form natural kinds in the same sense in which the kinds in the exact sciences are thought of as natural. By way of comparing two 'divisions of nature', viz., a 'classical' exact science kind (gold) and a kind of disease (Graves disease), I show that there is no justifiable 'ontological gap' between disease kinds and exact sciences kinds. We have instead a difference of degree.
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