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The causation of disease - the practical and ethical consequences of competing explanations.

Medicine, health care, and philosophy - 1 Jan 2006

Räisänen Ulla, Bekkers Marie-Jet, Boddington Paula, Sarangi Srikant, Clarke Angus

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The prevention, treatment and management of disease are closely linked to how the causes of a particular disease are explained. For multi-factorial conditions, the causal explanations are inevitably complex and competing models may exist to explain the same condition. Selecting one particular causal explanation over another will carry practical and ethical consequences that are acutely relevant for health policy....

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PMID: 16937239
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-006-9007-5

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