Establishing Medical Reality

1. Introduction
Harold Kincaid, Jennifer McKitrick

2. Normality, Disease and Enhancement
Theodore M. Benditt

3. Holistic Theories of Health as Applicable to Non-HumanLiving Beings
Lennart Nordenfelt

4. Disease and the Concept of Supervenience
Robert D’amico

5. Decision and Discovery in Defining ‘Disease’
Peter H. Schwartz

6. Race and Scientific Reduction
Mark Risjord

7. Towards an Adequate Account of Genetic Disease
Kelly C. Smith

8. Why Disease Persists: An Evolutionary Nosology
Robert L. Perlman

9. Creating Mental Illness in Non-Disordered CommunityPopulations
Allan V. Horwitz

10. Gender Identity Disorder
Jennifer Mckitrick

11. Clinical Trials as Nomological Machines: Implications for Evidence-Based Medicine
Robyn Bluhm

12. The Social Epistemology of NIH ConsensusConferences
Miriam Solomon

13. Maternal Agency and the Immunological Paradox of Pregnancy
Moira Howes

14. Violence and Public Health: Exploring the Relationship Between Biological Perspectives on Violent Behavior and Public Health Approaches to Violence Prevention
Jonathan Kaplan

15. Taking Equipoise Seriously: The Failure of Clinical or Community Equipoise to Resolve the Ethical Dilemmas in Randomized Clinical Trials
Fred Gifford

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