Fundamental Concepts in Medicine: Why Risk and Disease Are Likely to Stay on Board-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Fundamental Concepts in Medicine: Why Risk and Disease Are Likely to Stay on Board

Published:2024 Issue: Volume: Page:193-196
ISSN:0376-7418
Container-title:Philosophy and Medicine
language:en
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Author:

Dekkers Olaf

Abstract

AbstractIn everyday medical language the words risk and disease are easily used. Patients and doctors discuss the cause and prognosis of a disease while at the same time consider what the risks associated different treatment options are. Arguably, both risks and diseases belong to the basic stuff in medicine; they can be seen as different approaches to the same set of health-related phenomena, even though their demaracation is challening.

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-62241-0_14

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