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The nature of diseases: evolutionary, thermodynamic and historical aspects.

History and philosophy of the life sciences - 1 Jan 1996

Azzone G F

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Physico-chemical sciences are dominated by the deterministic interpretation. Scientific medicine has generally been assigned to the area of functional biology and thence to the physico-chemical sciences. In as much as diseases are alterations of physiological processes, they share the ontological status of the latter. However, many diseases cannot be accommodated within a deterministic interpretation. First, many...

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