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Concepts of plant health – reviewing and challenging the foundations of plant protection

2012-02-01

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Plant health is a frequently used but ill‐defined term. However, there is an extensive literature on general health definitions and health criteria in human medicine. Taking up ideas from these philosophical debates, concepts of plant health are reviewed and a framework developed to locate these concepts according to their position in several philosophical controversies. In particular, (i) the role of values in de...

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Literature Corpus work: 961dc6f9-096d-5594-9383-1174ca155e45
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3059.2011.02501.x

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