Explaining cancer: finding order in disorder

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This book engages several philosophical questions about cancer: What is cancer? Is it one or many? How do cell and molecular biologists, epidemiologists and evolutionary biologists think about and explain cancer?

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Full title :Explaining cancer : finding order in disorder / Anya Plutynski.

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Publication Date:2018

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY, United States of America
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780199967469, 0199967466, 9780190878474, 0190878479
oclc:on1043555435
LC Classification:RC261
Dewey Decimal:616.99/4

Cover; Half title; Explaining Cancer; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I.1. Organization of the Book; I.2. Autobiographical Note; 1. Cancer: Natural, Medical, and Social Kind; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Cancer Classification in Practice; 1.3. Natural Kinds and Disease Kinds; 1.4. Is Cancer a Homeostatic Property Cluster Kind? A Potted History and Discussion; 1.5. The End of Diseases?; 1.6. Conclusion; 2. From Disease to Risk; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Concerning Definition; 2.3. Naturalism: Disease as Dysfunction; 2.4. Problematizing Function

2.5. Objections to the Naturalist's View; 2.6. The Eliminativist View; 2.7. Conclusion: From Disease to Risk; 3. Causation, Causal Selection, and Causal Parity: What Genes Can (and Can't) Do; 3.1. Introduction: Genes as Causes; 3.2. Putting Concepts of Causation in Their Proper Place; 3.3. The Mechanistic Research Program in Cancer; 3.4. Causal Selection, Causal Parity, and Genetic Disease; 3.5. Conclusion; 4. Evidence and Environmental Epidemiology: A Pragmatic Approach; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Evidence in Epidemiology: An Overview; 4.3. Tobacco; 4.4. Ionizing Radiation: The Downwinders

4.5. Summary: Evidence and Causation in…

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